Episodic memory

hippocampus. Despite their being sources of distributed representation, episodic memory relies heavily on the hippocampus. This fact is illustrated when Mckinnon finally began to reach out to professionals for help to determine if she had a problem. Mckinnon was able to come into contact with Brian Levine, a scientist at the Rotman Research Institute in Toronto. Levine worked with her and was able to pinpoint that she actually did lack episodic…

After a good night of sleep, sleep strengthening episodic memory by improving memory and performance. However, different stages of sleep are more helpful than others. Since there are lacking evidences of whether REM or SWS is more essential to episodic memory, researchers suggested that SWS stores new memories into the pre-existing storage and REM secure the memories. The flaws and limitations are present in these studies are the contrasting amount of early sleep stage, late sleep stage, and…

reported that better performance on an episodic memory task in adults was related to a smaller right hippocampal head and larger hippocampal body. However, in children between the ages of 8-11 years old, performance was related to a larger left hippocampal tail, suggesting that development of hippocampal subregions contributes to age-related differences in episodic memory. Relations between hippocampal volume and age-related differences in episodic memory should be observed during early…

autobiographical memory is a subtype of episodic memory. Episodic memory is the ability to remember contextual details (e.g., where the event happened and when it occurred) about past events. Previous research on episodic memory has shown age-related improvements, specifically improvement during early childhood years (e.g., Brainerd et al. 2004; Ghetti & Angelini 2008; Riggins, 2014). Episodic memory in children can be measured and analyzed in a variety of ways such as binding paradigms, source…

increase its ability to process information in later situations. Emotions are also linked to memory, so when a song makes you really happy or sad you’re more likely to remember it; when alzheimer's patients hear a familiar song, it’s not unheard of them singing along with it, and there are some days that patients can only remember a song from their youth. Even with older adults without alzheimer's, memory is being helped from upbeat and downbeat music. Listening to music can enhance mood,…

Tulving’s persuasive theory of the two propositional memory types: Episodic and Semantic, have been pivotal in the research and study of Long-Term Memory for over four decades (Brown, Creswell, & Ryan, 2016). Semantic memory provides us with the memory needed for the use of language, whereas episodic memory focuses on the autobiographical events that can be explicitly recalled. There are many differences in these two memory sub-types that further differentiate them from one another. In addition…

Episodic memory is the process of recalling personally experienced past events. The efficiency of this process is adversely affected by age. In a sense, this may explain the level of emotional distress that the aged and their kin and all others feel at the onset of failing episodic memory Riding a bike, thinking of the trip you took when you were 10, and where to put the ice cream all have something in common(Dritschel & others, 2011; Wang, 2009).They are all are part of memory. Even though they…

like memory to work out the task. A study done by Henderson et al. (2006) have supported the argument against this criticism and have proved that foraging hummingbirds in wild are capable of timing interval between successive visits to flower that replenish at different rates, suggesting that the hummingbirds are able to store information about both where and when they ate throughout the day, evidence that this species show behavioural manifestations of different features of episodic memory. In…

This will cause previously consolidated memories to become lost and unable to be retrieved. Retrograde memories are the events that patient H.M. could remember before the surgery had taken place. H.M. lost his ability to convert new experiences into explicit memories, but he was able to retain a lot of his procedural or implicit memories. An explicit memory is a memory that people are aware of and it can be verbally described. This means that it is declarative…

On the surface, memory appears to be passive experience; it is strange and often intangible. However, dive deeper it reveals that memory can leave strong impressions on individuals. Memories are moments a person lived and remembers when recounted. Memories can come in many forms. According to Jan Assmann, communicative memory is a shared and transferable within a social group defined by common memories of personal interaction. The communicative memory comprises memories related to the recent…