Working memory

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…

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…

Bratakos Psych 193 Final Paper spring 2016 student ID A00631534 MUSIC, MEMORY, and LEARNING Memory is the process in which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved, Encoding is complicated and we don’t always know exactly what chemical and physical stimuli will help us remember the most. Retrieving the information that is stored means we bring it back into consciousness and this can be very demanding. Sensory memory holds sensory information less than one second after and item is…

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory: The Role of sleep in false memory formation is a report published by J.D Payne from Harvard University Medical division. Payne and his team carried out a series of experiments to establish the effects that sleep has on the formation of false memory in human beings. Establishing the effects that sleep has on false memories formation is the main objective of this study. The study is significant due to the contribution that it makes in the field of psychology…

judgement, relative and absolute using the WITNESS model (a computerised memory and decision-making model that produces eyewitness response probabilities) in simultaneous and sequential lineups. This report seeks to understand which judgement model produces the higher probative value for eyewitness identification. The authors…

Virtual Child has been an incredible learning tool especially when it comes to all the different milestones children achieve throughout their life. The most important childhood developments are their sleeping, health, eating, and motor development. My own virtual child, Delilah, experiences all of these adaptions that a usual child at eighteen months would up to that point. At the age of eighteen months, her sleeping and eating have regulated to the point where she gets regular sleep and enjoys…