Long-term potentiation

into a form that can be expressed and retained in memory. The second process is storage and is how information is retained so that it can be used at a later time. These two processes take part in converting information from the short-term memory (STM) into the long-term memory (LTM). Both of these are aided by rehearsal which is whereby something is consciously done to retain information in memory. The third is retrieval which is the process of locating and recovering information from the LTM to…

Memory can be categorized in two ways: short-term memory and long-term memory. "Short-term memory is the ability to remember events that occurred a short time ago or recall things that were recently learned, such as a person's telephone number or the name of a restaurant. Short-term memories are stored in the temporal lobe in the brain, which is the first part of the brain to be affected by Alzheimer's disease. Long-term memory is the ability to remember events that happened in the…

changed the individual’s ability to function in society. Alzheimer’s disease is also important in the field of memory because an individual’s ability to learn and repeat functions is based on memory that is encoded, stored and placed to our short-term and long-term memory. With this disease, the ability for one to function slowly disintegrates due to the memories of a specific function of ability…

Memory is defined as “The mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving, facts, events, impressions, etc., or of recognizing previous experiences.” Many people rely on their memories and are convinced their memory is always correct. Scientist have tested memory multiple times and found that memory is not all that reliable. Memory has been found to be affected by many factors such as emotions, verbs, selective attention, and many more. The following article explores the ways memories are…

Consciousness back in the 5th Century BC. Their accounts of the substrate consciousness all refer to an individual stream of consciousness, or“viññāna-sota”, that carries on from one lifetime to the next. Much later in history, William James coined the term “Stream of Consciousness” in his…

is learning a new language. Often times when a person is learning new vocabulary they relate the new terms to the language they already know in order to. This task is very helpful to recognize when learning new information as using paired associates to study and remember…

Description of the problem/issue Long Term Care (LTC) “is a range of services” one may need to support their personal care needs. LTC helps individuals with some of the most basic Activities of Daily Living (ADL’s) like eating, bathing, and dressing. LTC also helps support Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs) including: housework, medication management, cleaning, and grocery shopping (“What is Long Term Care?”). LTC services in the United States help meet the needs of older adults…

Introduction The world is inundated with the media and multitasking. Therefore, with information so readily accessible that it seems almost impossible for your working and short-term memory to retrieve and hold memory in the mind. This article investigated how the attention of impulse relates to level of which participants multitasked with the media. The study hypothesized that frequent multitasking induces psychosocial and cognitive differences or whether the participants with these differences…

which information is coded, stored, and retrieved. There is more than one type of memory, which again, can determine the capacity and duration for which we store what we have learned. Short-term memory has the most limitations; it is fragile and can be lost quickly. Of the two types of memory, long-term is essentially limitless and is accessed through three different types – semantic, procedural, and…

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.…