Neuroanatomy of memory

Alzheimer’s is a condition where the brain cannot gain function and causes memory loss. Like any other disease, Alzheimer's is known as a progressive disease where dementia symptoms can worsen over a couple of years. This disease is not only for older people, but it can also happen in younger adults also. “Alzheimer’s”, by Kelly Cherry shows examples of imagery, tone, and theme to create a contrast between the man’s setting and of his memories. Firstly, the narrator in this poem pointed out…

seem to lie in how well the brain mismanages this information. In “Your Brain Lies to You,” Authors Dr. Samuel Wang and Dr. Sandra Aamodt, both established neuroscientists, use their knowledge to explain the specific ways the human brain stores memories and data. However, they also present their conclusion on how the brain can also mislead us to blindly believe information that could potentially hold no merit, without a second thought or inference. Wang and Aamodt claim that this is a result of…

One morning in 2013 I woke up with an unusual stomach ache and did not think much of it, later on that day I made myself a lunch. Till this day I will never have the same meal again, just thought of it gets me sick. My second experience was a little over a month when I could not say the word bowl in my French class and instead said everything that relates to a bowl instead of the actual word itself. The two topics that I have chosen to support and explain both my experiences are Sauce Bearnaise…

that the function of episodic memory is providing information storages of counter-examples of semantic summary, to achieve adaptive decision rules that guide organism’s behaviors. However, contrary to this argument, I really could not find out any specific episodic memories correspond with this claim. I found most of my episodic memories now I can remember are about non-social, non-human related ones, contrary to evidence suggested by Klein et al. My episodic memories are mostly not about the…

commonly reported problem associated with the early onset use of marijuana, is verbal memory deficits. These deficits can last up to six weeks after an individual stops using marijuana (Schweinsburg et al., 2008). The researchers conducting this study were trying to prove a connection between learning inefficiencies, and the memory deficits due to early onset marijuana use. The researchers believe that the verbal memory deficits are due to learning inefficiencies brought on by early onset…

individual fails to recall normal and simple things like a word or the whereabouts of an object put away not long ago. Then the changes in the individual such as thinking and reasoning become lucid. At this stage for example, the individual fails to retain memory of reading done or names of people a moment ago. This is the…

Winner, E., Brownell, H., Happé, F., Blum, A., & Pincus, D. (1998). Distinguishing lies from jokes: Theory of mind deficits and discourse interpretation in right hemisphere brain-damage patients. Brain and Language, 62, 89-106. Purpose The purpose of the study was to investigate the deficits in the theory of mind in individuals with right hemisphere brain injury due to a stroke. The theory of mind is an “invisible mental state” through which a person can attribute mental states such as the…

According to Figure 1, the tactile stimulus was the fastest reaction followed by auditory and visual. The tactile stimulus was the fastest reaction because it is the reaction in which the nerve takes the lowest amount of time since it only sends the message to the brain and then back down to your muscles. The tactile stimulus is more of a reflex, it is not like the visual stimulus where the brain has to think of the purpose before closing the hand. For both person one and two the tactile…

Introduction There has been much evidence to support the theory that the usage of schematic categorization has been correlated to greater memory recall and has been linked to the levels of processing theory. The study being replicated is Mandler and Pearlstone (1966). This study was chosen as investigates schematic processing, and the role it plays on subsequent recall. A schema is the mental representation of an object, person, events or actions developed from our past knowledge of the world;…

neurological processes of working memory (Dobozy, 2014; O’Donnell et al., 2016, p. 328). While working in education, I have been introduced to concepts related to working memory, but none have explained the process as well as Baddeley’s model of working memory. Baddeley’s model challenges previous notions that working memory flows in a single orderly manner by introducing a component of management (Mcleod, 2008). Baddeley’s model of working memory seeks to explain how memory processes are…