Eidetic memory

Summary Erasing Bad Memories is an article that can be found on the American Psychological Association website. This article shows what researchers, neuroscientists and psychologists have been doing to try to understand how frightening memories are made and how they can possibly rid the mind of them. Many people suffer from anxiety. Usually, anxiety is induced by fearful memories. Even though someone may be in a safe situation, their brain brings back the memories and create it anxiety.…

learning and memory processes. Indeed, induction of LTP is observed coincidently with learning events in the hippocampus of free-moving animals and this learning-induced LTP occludes subsequent electrical induction of LTP in the hippocampus (Whitlock et al., 2006). Conversely, saturation of LTP in the hippocampus interferes with spatial memory formation (Barnes et al., 1994). A recent work demonstrates that in vivo artificial induction of LTD impaired recall of the associative memory while…

Our findings contradict the results of a number of earlier studies, however, which found that phonological short-term memory capacity plays a more important role in the case of less proficient speakers and its effect diminishes with the development of L2 competence (e.g. Cheung, 1996; Speciale et al., 2004; Masoura and Gathercole, 2005). The explanation for this contradiction might lie in the different nature of learning processes of the two groups of students. For students to reach a solid…

Studies on the formation of false memories have shown that through retroactive interference, you can alter an individual’s memory by giving them false information. Retroactive interference happens when there is an occurrence after an experience that affects the way you remember that experience. Consequently, this means that if an individual is given false information about a memory, it may mislead them to believe that they have experienced a certain event or occasion when in fact, they have not.…

Mr. S was born with an extraordinary memory which had both negative and positive effects on his life. Although he had a great memory, he also utilized mnemonic devices to help him recall lists up to 75 numbers. This could be seen as a gift and as a curse.Mr.S was able to remember experiences and lists vividly.Although he has a great memory, Mr. S had difficulty remembering actual information.He often confused imagination and reality when recalling from different types of information. We can use…

Twenty middle and high school students within the age of thirteen and seventeen were tested to know how best teenagers are with memory recall, both verbally and visually. Participants were selected using convenience sampling; posters were distributed to the schools and interested students signed in the principal’s office. The methods section discussed how the experiment was conducted; the participants were given stories that incorporated two genres. Half of the participants were given the story…

Memory is the mental process of acquiring, retaining and then retrieving information and mental storage system that enables these processes. Misinformation effect refers to memory for false information or alteration of facts that leads to memory distortion. It occurs when episodic memory information is distorted or accuracy decreases because of post-event information occurring after the main event. Elizabeth Loftus started research in this field in 1974 where she found that wording of questions…

capacity to store information, which is referred to as memory. In a paper written by Schacter, he describes the two forms of memory, “Explicit memory is reflected by conscious recall and recognition of recent information and events. Implicit memory is reflected by non-conscious effects of past experience on subsequent behavior, as expressed by such phenomena as priming, skill learning, and habit formation” (1689). This information on memory led Clark and Squire to focus their research on…

Flashbulb memory is a detailed and vivid memory of a specific event, in most cases the event is extremely important. This type of memory allows us the remember specific events in close to full detail this causes people to feel confident when they recall a specific event. The biggest flaw with flasbulb memory is that because people tend to feel overconfident about the event they add a false detail withought realizing it this results in the flashbulb memory becoming a false memory, a memory that…

College 7 March 2017 Abstract: I chose the article aging and motivated cognition: the positivity effect in attention and memory. Older adults show more emotionally gratifying memory distortion for past choices and autobiographical information than younger adults do. Positive items account for a larger proportion of older adults ‘subsequent memories than those of younger adult. These findings suggest that motivation and cognitive abilities contribute to older adults’ improved…