Flash memory

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…

the comprehension of memory is totally dazzling and runs onto many things. Also, is an exceptionally fascinating subject to contemplate internally about. Ask yourself for what reason do we overlook? How can it happen? Will it be altered? In what way would we be able to forestall it? An unending trail of inquiries. Our mind is similar to a PC that has a ceaseless memory stockpiling. The contrast between the typical distraction that increments with age known as age related memory weakness and…

Loftus has found that when an event is recalled, it isn’t accurately re-created. The memory is actually a reconstruction of the actual event. Your brain is using new and existing information to fill the gaps in your memory. She states that memories can change over time. Going off of what we know about memory, this study focuses on the wording of questions asked of eyewitnesses could alter their memories of events when they were asked other questions about the events at a later time. In…

demonstrates that we falsely remember things related in subject matter but fail to identify the source of these items especially when there is in-between time recall. P2: The fact that we can misjudge the source of our memories by creating what we think to be a realistic origin of memory can help explain why the critical…

There are four different types of amnesia, Anterograde amnesia which is when you can’t form new memories due to head trauma, Retrograde amnesia which is a loss of pre-existing memories, Lacunar amnesia which is a loss of memory of a specific event, and Childhood amnesia which is a common inability to remember events from childhood. In the film Memento, we meet Leonard Shelby or Lenny, who has an exaggerated form of anterograde amnesia. Lenny is on a mission to kill John G. because he believes…

nature of stimuli can influence long-term memory. Research in this field has shown that anger and violence tends to reduce memory recall. One study that discusses memory in differing emotions was conducted by Brad Bushman. In this study, Bushman (1998) tested the effect of television violence and its effect on memory of television ads. This summary focuses on Experiment 1, which used recall and recognition memory tests to evaluate the effect of violence on memory. Predictions For this…

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” - Haruki Murakami. Memories can either be thoughts that take you back to wonderful moments in the past, or dreadful memories you never want to experience again. In The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe, Montresor strives to get revenge on Fortunato, for what he has done is unacceptable. In The Utterly Perfect Murder by Ray Bradbury, Doug has horrific childhood memories with Ralph Underhill that he will never be able to…

several different locations within her small hometown. Except, Shelby had been taking many trips to Denver to have more treatments to help with her memories. As Shelby starts to have more questions about her past she runs into Auden. Auden tries to bring back Shelby’s memories by taking her to the places where they shared special moments. Shelby’s first memory comes to her as Auden and she are sitting on the hood of Auden's car at a local lake. Shelby always had a dream of making it big in the…