Semantic memory

very often, is a form of memory loss known as amnesia. People refer to amnesia usually as a mental illness that makes you forget everything about the past. But that is not right, and it is not wrong either. Yes, amnesia has to do with memory loss, but that does not mean that if a person is diagnosed with amnesia he/she will not remember anything at all from the past. Forgetting everything is only the primary aspect of amnesia. The duration, extent and type of that memory loss can vary greatly.…

those around you. For a kinesthetic learner, learning how to make more succinct and cogent notes would help when there is something of importance that is mentioned within the learning experience that is complex enough to not be able to commit it to memory; something that is more of an abstract quality would be an example of this. The ability to listen, write it down, and read it back without any signal loss is key to increasing your multimodal learning experience. Additionally, being able to…

doctor appointment. Declarative memory relates to the result of the written exam because you need declarative memory to recalled the information require to write the answer for the exam. You need to intentionally remember the information for your test by studying. If you do not make an effort in remembering the information, you will not pass the written exam. The hippocampus is a structure that is part of the limbic system, involved in creating long-term memories. For example, remembering…

We all know that the bad memories are always the most memorable. When I was younger,I wasn't the most tamed child, I had a tendency of getting into mischief. I Even once received ten minutes on the wall for getting into trouble. Time on the wall also meant how long you got held from recess. It was anywhere from stealing a pencil, to going onto the forbidden Monkey Bars. One day I went a little too far, and got twenty minutes on the wall. The whole second grade knew about the little scene I…

Hello Dr Buxbaum, Below is my weekly update for this week from 5th Sept '16 to 7th Sept '16 . 1) FMR1 5-choice training: - This week marks the beginning of the 11th week of the Fmr1 training, we have 1 wild type rat that was running on the Short ITI-2.5sec challenge trials. It performed with an accuracy rate of 92% and had less than 7% omission. It still has last challenge trial-Shorter ITI - 1.5sec in the upcoming week. - We also have 2 rats running on the challenge trials this week. We ran…

sleep most of the time. We also try to make as many memories as possible before the real world hits us and we have to grow up. Sometimes we think of memories as an exact copy of what happened during the time that memory was formed. We feel like we can describe everything that took place, who was there, what time it was, and what the weather was like. But when we tell these memories to people who are with us when they happen, sometimes the memories don’t match up. According to Lo, Chong, Ganesan,…

As people become older, they experience “mental difficulties”, “a dwindling attention span”, and they begin to forget even the simplist of things (Barrett). However, some people, known as “superagers”, are able to keep their memory sharp and remain as attentive as a 25 year old. The question now is, what differentiates the two groups of people? Using magnetic resonance imaging, a study was done that identifies a “set of brain regions that distinguished the two groups” where the regular agers…

This research was focused on “kinds”, or in other words, a group of things that have similar features/qualities, and how they play a part in children’s lives. Specifically, memory. There has been a lot of previous research done on the concept of “kinds,” but there has been none that connects it to memory. The previous research is about how children are very well developed in this cognitive ability, even though they are so young. Normally, most of a child’s cognitive abilities are not very well…

After watching How reliable is your memory? by Elizabeth Loftus, I believe that to a great extent, memory is not a reliable source of knowledge because it can be distorted, contaminated, and even falsely imagined. Memory decay, distorted memory, hindsight bias, consistency bias, the availability heuristic bias and suggestibility- are all problems that beset our reliance on memory.“I was there. I saw it.” The phrase that many witnesses confidently use in courts of law- to generally support or…

As a small business owner, do you ever feel like you need more sleep? You know your duties are many and varied, including customer service, human resources, logistics, and marketing, to name a few. In fact, you actually your responsibilities may be so great, you may need more sleep than a corporate executive, and the lack of sleep can be responsible for a variety of healthy problems and poor work performance. Corporate executives often tend to get home earlier than small business owners, because…