Neuroanatomy of memory

The human memory is an inaccurate storage of our lives, memories are often revised, cut out, or replaced. Jim’s experience with incorrectly recalling the day his parents won the lottery can be due to many different ways the brain forgets information. Jim may know that his parents won the lottery but not have enough paid attention to the specific details of the day. This occurs often with exciting events, you focus so much on what is happening we do not remember particular details. This…

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…

The Giver is stresses the importance of human memories. Above all, our ability to recall from the past is significant and plays a major part in how we get along in everyday life. Decision making, taking tests, and using common sense are all examples of how memory helps us. The decisions we make impact our past, present and future. The Giver takes place in what seems to be utopia or a paradise. Life is good and people are happy. Everyone plays games and is polite to each other. But something is…

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.…

found in the most inner, central portion of the brain or cortex. The limbic system controls emotion reactivity, attachment, affect regulation, and long-term memory. The limbic system is actually one of my favorite aspects or lobe of the brain. The limbic system is one of my favorites because it is the part that makes us human. It holds our memories, emotions, and attachment to life itself, without this amazing lobe we would be emotionless beings walking around; much like robots. Lastly, the…

Amnesia A slideshow of familiar faces and people; every frame associated with a particular smell, taste, emotion, or feeling. Our memories are foundational to each of our personalities and influence nearly every decision that is made throughout our days. A network of associates weigh the possible benefits and repercussions of every decision that could influence you in the future at supersonic speed, based on previous experience and recollection. So, how would someone without access to their own…

“The proper occasion for outrage is not that too many students are getting A’s, but that too many students have been led to believe that getting A’s is the point of going to school” (Kohn, 1999). In the perspective of a student, the pathway to success entitles a college or university degree education and more importantly, the grades to become accepted into these competitive programs. The education system has revolved around short term results, rather than long term success and knowledge.…

good mark if you only study once the night before the exam or test. There is a process in which you perform your memory. First being encoding, secondly is storage and lastly is retrieval. Encoding is the first step and the most important. Encoding is the process of getting your information. We have to make sure that the information we use is in the easiest format for our memories to file away.A part of this is how important the role of attention is. Before we can start encoding things we…

Consolidation of memory; the process of maintaining information in your LTM is strongly influenced by the role of sleep (Potkin and Bunney, 2012). “Declarative memory or explicit memory, emphasizes the representation and organization of factual knowledge (Reed, 2013).” Declarative memory plays a key role in an adolescent’s school performance and the process of consecutive social functioning. This study explores the effect of normal sleep on auditory declarative memory in adolescents ages 10-14.…

Simon and Music: A memory game with music involved Alex Kenney Mika Shepherd Lia Vonderahe John Castillo Santa Rosa Junior College Abstract We have seen that music can play a crucial role in recall of information. We are going to conduct an experiment that involves participants that will be in the presence or absence of music while playing the game Simon, a simple game testing short term memory. We will have the participants play the game in three different musical settings…