Emotion and memory

enough, his brain does not have enough time to form memories. For example, this situation always happens to those who cram the night before a test, as a result, in the next morning, they usually really struggle to remember the information which they have just learned. This process is not understood exactly; however, it is believed to relate to the brain’s hippocampus and neocortex, both of which take the responsibility for storing long-term memories. Scientists indicate that when sleeping, the…

personal and cultural collection of traumatic memory of the holocaust. Through the eyes of his father with great orientation, Spiegleman has demonstrated these horrific events with pictorial aid. The emotional, mental, and physical aspects due to brutal treatment towards the Jewish community from the holocaust reflects on how both Spiegleman and his father Vladek struggle to resurface these memories on personal and collective account.…

Alzheimer’s is a form a dementia where the brain begins to deteriorate, causing the decline of memory in middle to older aged individuals. Although there are treatments that slow the progression of Alzheimer’s and soften the symptoms of the disease, there are still no cure. Alzheimer’s only continues to worsen as a person diagnosed with the disease continues to grow older. Approximately 4.5 million Americans are affected by Alzheimer’s disease at the current date (Alzheimer 's Disease Center).…

Beginning in kindergarten, most students quickly realize that all they have to do to get through school is recall facts for test day, and simply forget them when they go home. Although young children are trained to sing the alphabet forwards and backwards with no struggle, concepts such as the Pythagorean Theorem cannot just be memorized, but instead must be strongly understood. Since the start of the new century, schooling in the United States has started to level off, especially in math and…

collection. The central theme of curation by loss is pointed out here in what we see and how we remember it; this is also backed up by the traits that she inherits from her grandfather like “Piano fingers” (7) which not stated there could point back to a memory of playing piano with her grandfather or rather observing her grandfather playing the piano. Parms does a great job of challenging the reader to think along the lines of how she thinks life works, but by using her theme in the book she…

The Japanese society, more specifically the classroom is an interesting place to be. Regardless of the level of schooling, a minute or two before the bell chimes, the students are seated and attentive, ready to learn. The student in charge of calling the class to order says “Ichigi-kan me no Eigo yoroshiku onegai shimasu” which loosely translates to “We are going to start 1st period English class, thank you for your time.” Consequently, they would substitute the word “Eigo”-English to…

Who is My Audience? I’m writing this article for The Ubyssey; therefore, my audience is the general student body population of UBC. More specifically, it’s towards first time college students who have been scarred by a decline in their grades. The students who confused and surprised by the amount of work that is expected of them, and don’t know how to manage their time wisely. Its to aid those who are naively spending hours on a studying method that simply wont reap them the grades they’re…

controversial topic in today’s society. Everybody from local potheads, to priests, are talking about marijuana. Researchers have studied the psychological effects of marijuana on an adolescents’ (14-17) and adult’s brain, such as their impulsivity, attention, memory and decision making. Hypothesis Ultimately because marijuana is such a controversial topic, researchers have decided to study marijuana and its lasting effects, mostly on adolescents, because “one out of ten teens said they smoke…

senses, like the smell of cologne or the taste of a certain pasta. While some just randomly pop up in my mind, almost like in the movie Inside Out where mini people in your mind would pick a memory ball and put it on the memory projector for showing. I do not know why it happens and why I cannot recall these memories. But because of these flashbacks, not only do I try to piece…

to come talk to me about his concerns. He wanted to understand what attention, perception and memory were and how attention and perception could have influenced his memory. I explained to him that, according to Matlin (2012), attention is “a concentration of mental activity that allows you to take in a limited portion of the vast stream of information available from both your sensory world and your memory”. In simpler terms attention is the ability to selectively process…