Emotion and memory

and the superior posterior parietal cortex have a relation to the cognitive control. The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex tends to be activated when there is a series of activities being carried out when some activities are kept on hold in the working memory, when the tasks to be carried out are demanding or when there is a switch in the relevance of the task dimension. It is also associated with carrying out complicated tasks whereas the superior posterior parietal cortex is associated with…

My average adjacent length was about 4.5% less than the correct length, so it concludes that the illusion had a small impact on my perception of line. 2A: How is this illusion related to depth perception? When we see the two lines to be at different distance, our brain try to figure out that which is near to our vision by showing the visible distance. So the line which form near edge of an exterior corner, we think that this line looks shorter…

Magician’s exploit the limitations of attentional and perceptual systems. They manipulate a process of selective attention; priming, resulting in inattentional blindness. Inattentional blindness describes the inability of a person to notice an unexpected object that is fully visible (Carpenter, 2001). Priming is an alteration in the identification or production of an item due to prior exposure (Tulving & Schacter, 1990). There are many different types of priming. This essay examines selective…

Neuropolitics can be defined as the use of brain imaging, biofeedback, and facial coding technologies in order to predict individual emotions that are associated with campaign ads or political figures (Randall, 2015).It makes use of neuroimaging, such as fMRI, to assess individual brain activity in the presence of campaign-related stimuli, in order to predict emotions that are associated with given campaign-related stimuli. Ultimately, this information can be used to influence individual voting…

Changes in body systems and organs with age are highly variable and may be results of disease, which in turn may be affected by lifestyle. Most body systems generally continue to function fairly well, but the heart becomes more susceptible to disease. Reserve capacity declines. Although the brain changes with age, the changes are usually modest. They include loss or shrinkage of nerve cells and a general slowing of responses. However, the brain also seems able to grow new neurons and build new…

The human brain is a complex organ that researchers continue to study and discover how it works. J Ripley Stroop developed a test called the Stroop effect to help measure how well a person’s selective attention works and brain processing speeds (Chudler, 2015). This test is used in screening people for dementia, schizophrenia, brain damage, stroke, and ADHD and helps determine aspects of attention and focus (Chudler, 2015). Humans are not equal in cognitive abilities thus any one test is not…

topic, repressed memories. A topic that is complex and very hard to proove and yet hard to discredit. While I am sure this is a situation that does happen, it probably is less common than has been reported. The main focus in this article seems to be oriented around child abuse memories being repressed. I believe children have the ablilty to try and protect themselves by repressing horrifying experiences. While I am sure there are many real cases of people repressing memories, I feel that our…

Language and executive processing This study was designed and conducted by Nick Rendell at Birkbeck University. The study focused on how language has contributed to cognitive development looking at both bilingual and monolingual people. Can we find a relationship between the levels of bilingual speech production/comprehension and task switching ability? Executive functions are used when people listen and speak especially by bilingual people who need to control which of language they use or…

Summary It’s a case study on use of fMRI to detect the awareness in the vegetative state and discuss the implications on neurology and neuroscience. The article discusses about 2 patients, who meet with traumatic brain injury, showed sleep-wake cycles, preserved reflexes, cognitive simulations underwent fMRI study. The fMRI task is to imagine an activity, that elicit expected cortical regions pertaining to the activity and supplementary motor area representing movement. An earlier study on…

Summary Let’s Sleep On It by Lea Winerman (2006) discussed that if you had more hours of sleep then you would have more brain activity which could lead to better learning and a more extensive memory. Robert Stickgold, PhD from Harvard “believed that sleep allows us to process, consolidate and retain new memories and skills”. Stickgold also investigated sleep effect’s on students who would learn a new tasks and would deprive them of a one night’s sleep to see how well they remembered the new…