Episodic memory

lecture, “Memory and Imagination: Functions of Episodic Simulation and Retrieval.” Due to my lack of experience and knowledge of the subject, I wasn’t able to comprehend the majority of it. The lecture began with Dr. Schacter introducing and describing episodic memory. Episodic memory is the storage unit for personal memories of events or experiences from the past. Dr. Schacter studied amnesic patients who exhibit an impairment in remembering personal experiences, so their episodic memory…

the hippocampus results in better episodic memory? It’s a wonder why some people have great memory of past events, while others have none. As an adult it gets increasingly harder to remember events you experienced as a child. It has always been a phenomenon as to why you can’t remember the memories you had as a child. Why you forget what happens before the age of four. As an infant your brain is busy making new cells in the hippocampus, so they don’t store memories that would otherwise be…

Gender Differences in Memory for Object and Word Location Why are men better at map reading than women? And why are women better at recalling routes and recognizing objects location? According to Postma and Maartje (2007), they define object location as the cognitive ability that allows individuals to recall specific objects, and functions in everyday life. Object location aides us remembering where we left certain items such as water bottle, cellphone, or keys and in explaining our environment…

inaccuracies about memory. This paper will analyze the cause, symptoms and treatment of Lucy’s amnesia and compare her experience to what is known about amnesia from neuropsychology. One year after the car accident that caused Lucy’s memory problems, a man named Henry introduces himself to Lucy in the Hukilau Café and…

interests are focused on molecular mechanisms of memory formation during infancy. I’m very interested in exploring how experiences during infancy results in hippocampal long-lasting changes, which influence adult behavior. Traumatic early life experiences can predispose individuals to psychopathologies, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), borderline personality disorder, addiction, depression and anxiety1-4. Paradoxically, episodic memories formed during infancy are apparently…

Memory is the mechanism through which one forms and alters their identity, and it is this inherent idea that is explored in Christopher Nolan’s film Memento, depicting a former insurance claims investigator, Lenny, on the hunt for the murderers of his wife while suffering from anterograde amnesia due to traumatic brain injury at the hands of the murderers. While Memento is not the first film to utilize amnesia as a plot device, it does deserve exceptional recognition for portraying the…

Amnesia A slideshow of familiar faces and people; every frame associated with a particular smell, taste, emotion, or feeling. Our memories are foundational to each of our personalities and influence nearly every decision that is made throughout our days. A network of associates weigh the possible benefits and repercussions of every decision that could influence you in the future at supersonic speed, based on previous experience and recollection. So, how would someone without access to their own…

50 First Dates, released in 2004, is an American romantic comedy film that tells the story of Henry, who meets and forms a relationship with an amnesiac by the name of Lucy. Lucy’s short term memory is impaired as a result of a car crash, and consequently she forgets everything about her life post-crash. This means that every day she has no recollection of meeting Henry and is unknowingly repeating the same actions, such as eating breakfast at the Hukilau Cafe and watching the same football…

Suppressing bad memories from the past can block memory formation in the here and now, research suggests. The study could help to explain why those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other psychological conditions often experience difficulty in remembering recent events, scientists say. Writing in Nature Communications, the authors describe how trying to forget past incidents by suppressing our recollections can create a “virtual lesion” in the brain that casts an…

Marah El Negomi Period:8 Episodic Memory: Taking my road test My father; Will Smith: decides to teach me how to parallel park the morning of the test. Marah; Sandra Oh: is nervous and upset at her father. “We should reschedule, I know I will fail. There is no point to go and waste time if I am not prepared.” My father; Will Smith: “You will not fail, you just have to focus.” Will Smith and Sandra Oh proceed to drive to an empty parking lot to teach Sandra how to parallel park. After…