Retrograde amnesia

The Case Against Memory Memories are an indicator of what individuals believe to be the truth. While some individuals may believe that an event occurred in early childhood, there are often parents that will not recall the event at all. It’s necessary, then, to establish if there are pieces of physical evidence that can be traced back to the memory in question. Without other evidence, memories become a case of “he said, she said,” which is not an ideal way of conducting investigations, let alone…

Some of the ethical concerns in implanting false memories is that it affects the way in which a person might think about a certain ominous circumstance that occurred on his/her life. In some dangerous situations in which a tragedy might had happen, it could cause witnesses to think about something they never saw during the accident. For example, on ''Loftus's The Formation of False Memories'', says that on a psychological experiment, 24 subjects were asked to remember 72 true events, but the…

Trauma-Related Amnesia: A Window of Uncertainty in the Serial Podcast The malleability of memory is an enigma. While it can be unpredictable at times, we can manipulate our brains to extract memories. In court cases, however, extracting memories becomes problematic and challenging. In the podcast Serial, that was based on a murder that happened several years ago, inconsistencies hinder the strive for truth. While Jay claims that Adnan killed a girl called Hae, problems with memory cause…

that dissociative amnesia (repressed-recovered memories) is such a contested matter, particularly when it is being used as grounds for a court case. Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Harrison Pope took it upon himself and his team at the Biological Psychiatry Lab at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital to find out whether or not dissociative amnesia is present in written works throughout history. Under the umbrella of The Recovered Memory Project they argue that if this type of amnesia is a…

The Mandela Effect all started with the discovery of a large number of people sharing collective false memories of past events. A blogger, Fiona Broome, used this term to describe a false memory about Nelson Mandela. Thousands of people claim they remember mourning Nelson Mandela’s death and seeing his funeral on TV. Mandela allegedly died in prison during the 1980s; in reality, he died on December 5, 2013, due to respiratory tract infection. The Mandela Effect causes our minds to latch onto…

The human brain is such an impressive machine that scientists have been using it as a model for machinery for years and despite the fact that technology has come a long way scientists are still unable to replicate the human brain in its entirety. The brain is the command centre of the human body and runs all the processes within the body. As if that was not enough the brain runs complex mental functions as well. It is the home of the human mind. One of the key human functions that are run by the…

Mistaken behavior is errors in judgement and actions made in the process of learning life skills. Many times we confuse mistaken behavior with misbehavior but it’s quite different. According to Sarah Smith misbehavior implies that it was intentionally, while mistaken behavior implies that it was unintentional. It is easy to say a child is misbehaving by his wrongdoing but we don't think about the cause of his actions. Sometimes children make mistakes like we do but, it is important that we take…

Confessions are one of the most damning types of evidence in criminal trials. While convictions cannot be based on confessions alone, they are still relied on in litigation (Schwartzbach, 2016). Not all confessions are true, however, even if a person remembers committing the crime. Julia Shaw and Stephen Porter published a study in 2015 that examined the general hypothesis: It is possible to create a false memory of committing a crime. They used a sample of 60 undergraduate students to test the…

Christian Swegal’s “Stasis” seems to be set some time during the future. The main protagonist, through some confusion revealed as Henry Archer, gets amnesia after activating a proximity mine while on duty. The two only memories he retains is about the briefing of the mission and a woman. Henry goes through many different stages of during this time period that one might think he had psychological trauma not just from the accident. There are many elements in this production worked very well to…

How are false autobiographical memories created? This question is important because false autobiographical memory influences the self. An autobiographical memory is the memory we have of an event that happened at a particular time and place in our past (Walker, 2016, lec 3). Therefore, a false autobiographical memory entails peoples’ recall of events that they think they experienced when in fact that event did not occur (Simone, 2016, lec 3). Furthermore, in answering the question above, we…