Working memory

Three researcher identified 3,105 peer reviewed articles through database search. We narrowed and assessed 15 articles out of those 3,105 to address the research questions presented in this systematic review. The primary exclusion criteria articles published after 1990. Table 1 summarizes the study characteristics. Anderson, Damasio, Kilma, Bellugi & Brandt (1991) observed three patients with aphasia who were taught how to fingerspell. Out of all of the patients, two patients were able to…

loss of memory function. Immediate recall ability is preserved, as is remote memory; however, patients experience striking loss of memory for recent events and an impaired ability to retain new information. In some cases, the degree of retrograde memory loss is mild. Many patients are anxious or agitated and may repeatedly ask questions concerning transpiring events. Upon mental status examination, language function is preserved, which indicates a preservation of semantic and syntax memory.…

To the average adult, seven hours of sleep is enough to rest the mind and the body, however throughout the day many people choose to take naps. Sleep enhances subject’s memory of specific activities that occurred throughout the day. Lau (2011) conducted a study where the importance of taking a nap was assessed. He hypothesized that the participants who napped performed better than those who did not. I agree with Lau’s hypothesis because without sleep, the mind is distracted from daily learning…

In my Senior Project I am writing and informing people on sleep and how it can affect people's everyday life. Some additional background on paper from the help of Mr Genaro he is the AP Psychology teacher and in his class he studies the mind and how it works and he also studies human behavior and how we act around other people in different environments etc. I asked him a question on how the brain acts when we are asleep and he says that when we are asleep the mind is dreaming and we go through…

called “Elizabeth Loftus: How reliable is your memory? (2003).” Loftus is a psychologist who studies memories. She studies false memories and false memory is when a person is very susceptible to a suggestion which can create a memory of events that never really happened. I think most people can relate to having a false memory, I know I can but, Loftus goes more in-depth with her findings on false memory and shows you just how detrimental your memory is. Loftus worked on a case for a man named…

processing. The first part is that memory has a deeper level than the previous memory. The second part is that by having a deeper level of processing it will cause memory to last longer. Then the third part of the development is that the levels of processing views rehearsal as unimportant because it will only last on average three months and may cause memory to become worse when using shallow memory instead of using a deep level of processing. The last part is that memory should be studied by…

looking to assess and understand the place memory mechanism present in the Drosophila. To do this, they used the operant conditioning paradigm, in a heat box. Previous research has found that the Rutabaga type 1 adenyl cyclase, latheo Orc 3, small GTPase and the Dopamine Ecdysone receptor (DopEcR) are important in the retention of memory. Ostrowski et al. (2015) wanted to find the exact function and time of action for each of these elements in place memory retention. Additionally, they looked…

underlying learning and memory. Induction of LTP occurs concomitantly with learning in the hippocampus of freely-moving animals and is known to prevent occludes subsequent electrical induction of LTP in the hippocampus (Whitlock et al., 2006). Conversely, saturation of hippocampal LTP is also known to interfere with spatial memory formation (Barnes et al., 1994). A recent study has demonstrated that in vivo artificial induction of LTD impaired recall of associative memory, which was restored by…

cannot store new information in their short-term memory. H.M is a good example of this; he had surgery in 1953 when was only twenty-seven years old. This particular surgery involved the removal of his hippocampus to alleviate his epilepsy. His epilepsy was severe, and had an extremely negative impact on his daily life (Saul McLeod, 2011). The surgery was successful in controlling his epileptic seizures, but sadly left H.M with some serious memory impairment as a side effect. (Saul McLeod, …

Benjamin, A. S. (2001) studied false memory and the effects of repetition on age, and time pressure on false memory. Two experiments were performed. In the first experiment researchers predicted that the effect of repetition would differ in outcome between young and elderly participants. Between younger and older participants, younger participants will show a decrease in false memory while it might increase for older participants. This study involved two different age groups, three different…