Semantic memory

What pain and agony it is to have someone who you've grown to love and adorable only forget who you are after being victim to a disease called Amnesia. Amnesia is involved with the brain's memory functions through sensory, short, and long-term memory. There are two types of Amnesia that King describes in her book (Experience Psychology Ed. 3) and those are Retrograde Amnesia and Anterograde Amnesia. Let's look at the impact that both types have on their victims. First, Retrograde…

When someone walks onto a university campus, it is very easy to nominalize people. Everyone is in their own world, doing the routine of their lives. However, spend a few hours with someone, and it can become apparent that conjectured stereotypes are often extraordinarily false. Burke Severyn is a student at the University of Texas at Tyler. At 20 years of age, Severyn a mite taller than the average man. He has sandy-brown hair that is well-complimented with dark brown eyes; set off by a…

Mental imagine becomes more and more prevalent in today’s society. Mental imagine involves unconscious thoughts and become conscious and visualization is a conscious thought process. People usually use the visual cortex a lot instead of non-visual cortex during imagination and perception process. Mental rotation is the individual's capacity to manipulate a mental representation of objects within a person's brain (Cheung 128). Notably, the mind alternations are directly proportional to the visual…

To identify if a patient is at risk of Alzheimer’s disease, doctors have devised a quick test. The 21-question test distinguishes between normal absent-mindedness and the more sinister memory lapses that may signal the early stages of dementia. The 21 questions are answered with a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’. A ‘yes’ is given a score of one or two and a ‘no’ always scored zero, giving a maximum possible score of 27. Someone who scored under five is advised that there is no cause for concern. A score…

Over the past few decades, researchers have agreed that different types of human experiences and capabilities, such as being bilingual, can alter the structure and function of the brain over time. However, there has been a lack of research concerning other aspects of bilingualism. This has created the impression that the effects of bilingualism are well understood and very specific, when in reality, bilingualism causes profound changes to the way in which the brain functions and scientists have…

Television shows such as Law and Order: SVU have brought the concept of repressed and recovered memories to pop culture. Repressed and recovered memories can be described as memories of traumatic events from childhood, that is forgotten then recalled later in life. This is a controversial topic in the mental health community; with the draw surrounding the validity of these memories. Working with doctors and researchers, judges within the court circuits must pick a position to get the justice…

Memory is a complicated and fascinating object to study. They are more fallible than any of us could have imagined. We change and alter our memories even if we don't realize it at the time. The paradox of a memory is the same mechanisms that serve us well most of the time and can sometimes cause us problems. There are multiple ways that may have given Jim false memories. The brain will often go beyond the available information to make sense of the world. In addition, since Jim was trying to…

that it is unjust to execute a man based only on eyewitness testimony, with no further evidence. An eyewitness testimony is involved with the memory, and as humans we know our memory tends to fail us sometimes. In regards to memory, we have the role of interference, which makes it hard to either retain new or old material. This could infer that the memory of the incident could be partially lost, and what the eyewitness claims to see is what he thought he saw,…

has the unique ability to organize their thoughts, memories, and sense of self within two separate temporal locations. One level sees the writer as the all-seeing powerful being examining and interpreting memories in retrospect through the narrative voice, and the other allows the author to function as a character within the narrative who may physically interact with the story, albeit both roles are explicitly constrained by the limits of their memory. The graphic memoirs Persepolis by Marjane…

cognitive brain training is a useful tool that can help in many different areas of study. Although the researchers need to refine their experiments when it comes to the long-term areas of the brain as it takes a lot more training than the short term memory for example. Overall these are both excellent studies that could do with some…