Long-term care

Take a moment and look back on a memory that you would rather forget. Maybe you are picturing a relationship that ended badly, or perhaps the death of a family member. Maybe you are remembering a traumatic incident in your past, or maybe you are a war veteran trying not to relive the horrors of war. Regardless of the memory you have recalled, it is likely that, at some point in your life, you have come across one of these painful memories and wished there was a way to erase them from your mind.…

Home > Academic > Psychology > Long-Term Memory Explorable.com 13.2K reads Comments Printer-friendly versionSend by emailPDF version Long-term memory is defined as memory that can last anywhere from a few days to a lifetime. In terms of structure and function, it differs from working memory or short-term memory which last anywhere from a quarter of a second to 30 seconds. Various studies have disagreed on the relationship between long and short-term memory. The Atkinson-Shiffrin…

Primary distinctions of long-term memory, introduced in 1972, consists of procedural, semantic, and episodic memory. Procedural memory constitutes the memory required to perform certain actions via motor functions. A prime example of procedural memory consists of easily remembered…

The brain is one of the most powerful tools the human body possesses. Memory is an everyday use; it can be triggered through senses or even by reading a book, but the brain can repress memories. The mind can push a memory to an area of inaccessible corner of the brain causing it to be unconscious, which can later be accessible. Having repressed memory victims has become a controversy in Georgia. The human brain relies on stored knowledge. What happens when the brain can’t recover that…

Project Summary Hypothesis Statement: The Atypical Protein Kinase C Zeta (PKMz) is the molecular mechanism underlying Long Term Potentiation (LTP) maintenance at the synaptic membrane. Furthermore, this process is regulated at the level of translation of a locally available pool of PKMz mRNA, and can be sustained in part by active PKMz itself, or inhibited via an activity-dependent translation block. Significance: If the effects of a true PKMz conditional knockout result in memory impairments…

widely applied to both counselling professions; for suppression of previously traumatic events and also in general everyday use; as the ability to forget previous, unrequired information. Directed forgetting can be defined as an overall reduction in long-term memory, resulting from human demand to forget previously presented information used for learning purposes (Eysenck & Keane, 2015). Within the present essay, consideration towards influential, founding research of directed forgetting from…

Long-lasting forms of synaptic plasticity such as long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD) have been long thought and now convincingly demonstrated to be fundamental cellular mechanisms in the brain that underlie learning and memory processes. Indeed, induction of LTP is observed coincidently with learning events in the hippocampus of free-moving animals and this learning-induced LTP occludes subsequent electrical induction of LTP in the hippocampus (Whitlock et al., 2006).…

Number of plasticity studies explained the crucial role of Short Term synaptic Plasticity (STP) in modulating the timing of signal processing through mediating the driven input frequency and filtering the signal propagation which is required for maintaining network activity (Tsodyks et al., 1998; Dittman et al, 2000 and Wang et al., 2006). In parallel, other studies revealed the intricate details of the neurobiological explanation implicated in STP (Loebel et al., 2002 and Barak et al., 2007).…

there are three parts: short term memories, long memories, and recalling memories Do you ever wonder why we have memories and how the brain is able to make them? Well to answer the first question it’s easy, we have memories because without it we wouldn’t be able to do simple everyday things. Such as driving a car, locking the door before you leave to work, or simply speak. In fact, without the brain's…

The purpose of this article is to examine the differences in working memory capacity and long-term memory recall. Working memory capacity is defined as a system for temporarily storing and managing of the information required to carry out complex cognitive tasks such as learning, reasoning, and comprehension. Long-term memory is defined as memory that involves the storage and the recall of information over a long period of time (weeks or months). In this study participants were asked to perform…