Prospective memory

However, the misery is still not over. Even if the term “chronic neurological disability” had been added under the draft bill of the Act4, the procedure of “labeling” a person with disability is still not consistent with the new definition of “disability”, especially when it comes to assessment of the mental capacity. Mental capacity is a multidimensional construct and a central determinant of an individual's ability to make autonomous decisions6. Mental capacity refers to the ability through…

Finding Dory, a film by Pixar Animation Studios is about a blue tang fish named Dory, where as a child, she got separated from her parents. She has short-term memory loss, so at first, when she got lost, she tries to look for her parents and asks other fishes for help but the fishes couldn’t help her because when they asked what are you looking for, Dory forgot what she is looking for. As time passed, she completely forgot about her parents. The only thing that she remembers is a song that goes…

Riley is 11 years old. According to Erikson’s psychosocial development stages, she is determining her industry vs. inferiority. Children in this stage typically learn independence, or in other words, how to do things on their own. Teachers begin to take an important role in the child’s life, since they teach the child specific skills. In the movie, Riley’s new teacher asks her to perform a task, more specifically, to stand up and talk about her life before she moved. Riley listens to her because…

The idea that synaptic modifications in the brain underlie learning and memory was first hypothesized by Donald Hebb in his pivotal work The Organization of Behaviour: A Neuropsychological Theory (Hebb, 1949). Since then, the theory has gained strong support from various lines of research where the discovery of synaptic long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD) within the mammalian hippocampus present the strongest line of evidence (Howland and Wang, 2008). These phenomena have…

As a measure of current general intellectual functioning, the KBIT-2 was administered and yielded a Verbal Score = 86±5; a Nonverbal Score = 55±5; and an IQ Composite Score = 66±4. The composite score falls within the very low or borderline educational classification at the 01st percentile rank per national age based norms and needs to be viewed with caution. Due to Hunter’s struggles with focus and difficulty attending to auditory instruction, his nonverbal score is felt to be an under…

In this article by Susan Clancy, Richard McNally, Daniel Schacter, and Mark Lenzenweger. They take a look at the memory of those who have a claim to be abducted by aliens. Throughout this article the researchers wanted to test four hypotheses with regard to false recall and false recognition and produced a thesis statement that stated, "those reporting recovered and repressed memories of alien abduction were more prone than control participants to exhibit false recall and recognition. The groups…

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…