Memory processes

the results of a number of earlier studies, however, which found that phonological short-term memory capacity plays a more important role in the case of less proficient speakers and its effect diminishes with the development of L2 competence (e.g. Cheung, 1996; Speciale et al., 2004; Masoura and Gathercole, 2005). The explanation for this contradiction might lie in the different nature of learning processes of the two groups of students. For students to reach a solid intermediate level of…

Everyone has their unique ways of learning something from start to finish. Often times we take for-granted our abilities to successfully teach a task or technique to ourselves not to mention others. Once we find that drive or that spark we can put forth the effort to teach us something that we have never learned before. Its all about the ideas behind what actually goes into learning something new. In an effort to gain a better understanding of how we learn I have thought of a learning goal,…

1) In the hippocampus, activity-dependent synaptic plasticity (i.e. LTP) plays a crucial role in certain types of learning. Therefore, the physiological saturation of synaptic weights should disrupt the encoding of new memories. Researchers defined saturation of an intrinsic pathway as “a neural state in which no further potentiation is feasible, at least for a period of time, at any site in the pathway.” In this experiment, researchers were testing if saturation of hippocampal long-term…

efficiency of memory usually begins to degenerate after people are over 30 years old because of the circle of brain’s cognitive performances (Svoboda, 2009). Each cognitive performance is changed with increasing age. Some cognitive performance is generated in older people, such as Semantic memory, Crystallized intelligence, and Emotional reasoning (Yue, 2013). On the other hand, older people have some degenerate cognitive performance, which are mostly related to memory, such as Recall, Episodic…

“Acute Exercise Improves Motor Memory: Exploring Potential Biomarkers” is a study published in Neurobiology of Learning & Memory that focuses on the potential role several biomarkers have on exercise induced improvements of human motor skill acquisition and retention (Skriver et al., 2014). This correlational study expands on an earlier study conducted by Roig, Skriver, Lundbye-Jensen, Kiens, & Nielsen which found that a single cardiovascular exercise session improved motor skill learning by…

reflect cognitive processes related to attention and semantic memory (Krause et al., 2008). Moreover, Higashima et al. (2007) reported that event-related alpha attenuation may not be a unitary cognitive phenomenon, desynchronization of the lower alpha activity is topographically widespread on the entire scalp and is thought to reflect attentional processes, while desynchronization of the upper alpha activity is topographically restricted and is thought to reflect higher cognitive processes…

amnesia and its affects. One of them is that most people with amnesia forget everything about their identities and all of their past memories. A second is that one way to get rid of amnesia is to have another head injury (Lilienfeld, Lynn, Ruscio, Beyerstein, 2010). Theses myths are a problem if left unaddressed because it causes people to have misconceptions about memory, learning and how the brain works. It is also important to discredit the myth so people know what to except if they…

Believe it or not, memory affects all aspects of our lives. “Is memory a process or a place? Well the answer to that is not simple. Memory is a process but also has a place in the brain. Perhaps the best definition of memory is that it’s an active system that receives information from the senses, organizes and alters it as it stores it away, and then retrieves the information from storage.” (Ciccarelli, Harrigan, Fritzley. (2010) pg. 230) We have insane amounts of memory stored inside our brains…

Cognitive psychology is the study of your brain and your mental process. One of the mental processes that are staged in cognitive psychology is your memory. The theoretical basis of my study was schema. Schema in psychology describes a pattern of thought or behavior that organizes categories of information and the relationships among them. Schema however is also part of the cognitive part of psychology. A Schema ‘theory’ basically states that everything you know is organized into units. Schema…

sleep most of the time. We also try to make as many memories as possible before the real world hits us and we have to grow up. Sometimes we think of memories as an exact copy of what happened during the time that memory was formed. We feel like we can describe everything that took place, who was there, what time it was, and what the weather was like. But when we tell these memories to people who are with us when they happen, sometimes the memories don’t match up. According to Lo, Chong, Ganesan,…