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INTRODUCTION Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a form of dementia that affects the brain and is most common in older age adults. People with AD most commonly experience symptoms such as an inability to complete activities of daily living (ADL’s) independently while also exhibiting signs of mental decline, most likely due to loss in brain mass associated with the progression of AD (Vreugdenhil, Cannell, Davies, & Razay, 2011). As prevalence of AD increases along with the cost of healthcare, new…

character sets and distractor tasks having lower recall rates, however, they were not sufficient enough to prove that the results happened by chance. Current research by Chiu & Egner (2015) show that the results indicated that switching tasks, reduce memory for distractors, and that when presented with focusing on the distractor tasks reduces encoding the previous information. Although, the results to the current study correspond with the findings of Gronau, Cohen, & Ben-Shakhar (2009). The…

development of a human brain has been a strong topic to research. A study headed by Gregory Clemenson and Craig Stark in 2015 attempted to see how video games and hippocampal associated memory work together. The part of the brain that this study refers to mainly is through associations of the hippocampus and memory. Clemenson and Stark (2015) attempted to look at ways to alleviate hippocampal cognitive deficits through sensory stimulations. They based their study from research done by Van…

People with MND cannot pass on the disease since it is not contagious. It only kills neurons and there is no way for the disease being transmitted MND is more common in men than women and with children it's more common with newborns or with children who haven't learnt to walk yet. With men, most of the people with MND are over…

One influential person to the study of memory is “the man who couldn’t remember,” Henry Gustav Molaison, a man known as H.M., a young boy who had severe seizures. Because of the persistent teasing from his classmates, H.M. transferred to a different school. After graduation, H.M. began to work, but because of his relentless seizures, work became too dangerous and forced him to live at home where his parents could watch him. H.M. was given anti-epileptic drugs, but they did not help. H.M. met…

chewing gum warms up the brain, memories are stored in the brain,and alertness plays a factor when test taking . Chewing gum can improve…

3, Memory: Remembering Names pp120-121 The whole idea of remembering people’s names is interesting, and resonates with me personally. Throughout my entire student career, I have made it a personal task to memorize all my peer’s names. Unfortunately, that ceased to continue in University due to the lack of name usage and importance. University students are often recognized by a number, rather than their name. However, the article mentions the use of technology can vastly enhance one’s memory of…

Summary Erasing Bad Memories is an article that can be found on the American Psychological Association website. This article shows what researchers, neuroscientists and psychologists have been doing to try to understand how frightening memories are made and how they can possibly rid the mind of them. Many people suffer from anxiety. Usually, anxiety is induced by fearful memories. Even though someone may be in a safe situation, their brain brings back the memories and create it anxiety.…

learning and memory processes. Indeed, induction of LTP is observed coincidently with learning events in the hippocampus of free-moving animals and this learning-induced LTP occludes subsequent electrical induction of LTP in the hippocampus (Whitlock et al., 2006). Conversely, saturation of LTP in the hippocampus interferes with spatial memory formation (Barnes et al., 1994). A recent work demonstrates that in vivo artificial induction of LTD impaired recall of the associative memory while…

Our findings contradict 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…