Semantic memory

In essence, everyone lives their lives in the same basic fashion: a constant cycle of encoding and storing new memories, along with the retrieval of old ones. Granted, there are those exceptions to the norm, but in the grand scheme of things they are really the outliers. Now since our brains don’t function like a video camera perfectly capturing every moment of our lives, we have to work earnestly in order to remember every minute detail which is deemed important or necessary. This is where…

Any types of memories that involve strong emotions tend to leave a permanent marks in our system and all it takes is a moment. Yet, it takes more times to process general knowledge and experiences into our memories. General memories had to be pair up with effective retrieval cues in order to be more easier to access. While for memories associated with strong emotions, all we need is to witness a traumatic event. Psychologically, they are known as flashbulb memories. However, no matter how…

of the main aspect is that people are reluctant to adopt change, even if it is something that will benefit them, despite their tradition resting purely on faulty human memory. Human memory is key for traditions, to the point than many people write down their traditions so that they don’t forget them, realizing how flawed human memory is. The ritual with the black box has gone on so long that “the original paraphernalia for the lottery had been lost long ago, and the black box [which] rest[..] on…

This system, associated with emotions and drive, is located below the cerebral hemispheres and holds a very valuable part of the brain. The hippocampus has the important role of processing explicit memories for storage. Losing this part of the brain is being depleted of the ability to form new memories, which significantly affects the lifestyle of a person in a…

Helen Thomson of the BBC reported on aphantasia, which is a condition where a person is unable to form mental imagery, or imagine things. Aphantasia fits into cognitive neuroscience, because it related to people’s mental perceptions. Cognition plays a role, but more in a lack of there of sense because people with aphantasia have the inability to creat images with their mind. In the article, Thomson reports about a person named Philip, who had no idea that people had the ability to create mental…

possession, which is greater than the pleasure of acquiring that possession (Feng et al., 2013). Furthermore, studies have found that objects acquired in this context can have different memory traces and might have an effect on recognition memory (Feng et al., 2013). In fact, how those objects are encoded in the memory might differ from those stranger to that person (Feng et al., 2013). In addition, the concept of self can be extended to people, refer as the extended self (Kim & Johnson, 2012).…

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 following specific hypothesis: False memories of committing a crime along with police contact while in adolescence can be developed by young adults in an experimental setting. The purpose of this study was to determine if…

(2010). different studies have shown the negative effects of drug use on working memory: Morphine has been shown to impair working memory (Friswell et al.,2008); polydrug users who preferred cocaine or heroin, continued to have cognitive impairments, including working memory, up to five months into abstinence (VerdejoGarcía, and Pérez-García, 2007); methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, ecstasy) caused working memory impairment even two and a half years after cessation of use (Thomasius et al.,…

retrograde or anterograde amnesia. It appears that john is most likely subject to anterograde amnesia as he shows signs of losing his ability to form declarative memories. “Anterograde amnesia is the inability to recall events that occur after the onset of amnesia.” (Peter Harris, 2014). (pg. 105). “Retrograde amnesia is the loss of memory for events occurring before a particular time in a person’s life, usually before the event that precipitated the amnesia.” (Peter Harris, 2014). (pg.…

interview with Tim O’Brien, he brings about the physical weight that the soldiers carry. More important, the book is about the psychological burden that the soldiers carry with them after the war – guilt, sadness, joy and the burden of memories. Tim shared his memories of being draft to war, the…