Memory disorders

As it is stated in The Identity Function of Autobiographical Memory, "...self-identity depends on autobiographical memory, but the nature and strength of the association depends on qualities of both the self-identity and the memories. Moreover, the relation is reciprocal: People 's recollections influence their self-views and vice versa." (pg. 137, Identity Function...) This is the essential relationship between memory and self-identity. Paul Brok establishes a similar idea in All in the…

Memories Form Knowledge Throughout history, people have formed knowledge that they strongly believe in. However, little do they know that what they consider to be knowledge could be entirely false. This knowledge is based entirely on memories and preexisting schemas. Throughout the past 30 years, experiments have demonstrated that memories are not immune to distortion. Research performed by Elizabeth A. Kensinger, p.h.D in Boston College shows that participants were better at remembering…

Butler speaks about the idea of how memory does not exist in narrative form on it’s own. We must use the act of translation in order to create a narrative. This includes anytime we even share our own story we must translate the memory into a narrative. This is a vital time for victims the traumatic event in New York City. Victims must use the coping method of finding a concrete story…

In 1995, Henry Roediger and Kathleen McDermott wanted to look at false recall and false recognition. Also, Roediger and McDermott wanted to know if they could get the same or similar results of Deese’s experiment, which he conducted in 1959 (Deese, 1959 as cited in Roediger & McDermott, 1995). So, Roediger and McDermott conducted two experiments that essentially replicated Deese’s study (Deese, 1959 as cited in Roediger & McDermott, 1995). In their first experiment, Roediger and McDermott used a…

Memory can be reformed, however, this fact is not always accurate; memory is frequently flawed due to people being biased with deductions about what we assume to happen and generate false memories. Reconstructive memory is a cause for memories that aren’t always reliable. During the year 1973, Loftus worked with sematic memory. She conducted an experiment where she presented an occurrence and had the participants list categories associated with the event. She measured the time of reaction, the…

In a recent study conducted by the Georgia State University, researchers uncovered that those who had suffered a brain injury or had a mental illness started delinquent behavior at a younger age and used polyinhalants on a more serious level. What else did the study find? During the study, they discovered that those who used polyinhalants had a much higher level of mental illness. In addition, they found that youth who used polyinhalants had double the head injury rate. The study took place…

working memory development and maturation in infants. Working memory allows for the temporary storage of information, but is restricted to the capacity limit of three or four items. I chose this article because it helps us to understand how “chunking” information in working memory may be available to younger preverbal infants. Hence, this article gives the world and me, a hopeful pediatrician, a better understanding of how cognitive development in infants matures and grows. Working-memory…

Club, Mary Karr mentions blanking out memories of her past. But, how does the brain suppress these memories, what are scientists discovering about suppressing memories, and what is their use in court. Repressed memories are unconsciously repressed by the brain. Scientists believe this process is called state-dependent learning. Meaning the brain creates memories in a certain mood or state, especially in stressful and traumatic situations. These memories are not able to be retrieved until…

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…

Semantic Priming Semantic priming is a common priming paradigm in many monolingual studies (Bleasdale, 1987; Ferrand & New, 2003; Neely et al., 1989; Perea & Rosa, 2002a, 2002b; Hutchison, 2003; Lucas, 2000; Neely, 1991), but is less common in cross-language priming (Duyck, 2005; Kroll & Stewart, 1990; Schoonbaert et al., 2007; Chen & Ng, 1989; de Groot & Nas, 1991; Keatley et al. 1994; Schwanenflugel & Rey 1986; Basnight-Brown & Altarriba, 2007). Semantic priming studies offer an investigation…