Working memory

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” - Haruki Murakami. Memories can either be thoughts that take you back to wonderful moments in the past, or dreadful memories you never want to experience again. In The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe, Montresor strives to get revenge on Fortunato, for what he has done is unacceptable. In The Utterly Perfect Murder by Ray Bradbury, Doug has horrific childhood memories with Ralph Underhill that he will never be able to…

article tells us that Judy Johnson ends up going psychotic, I would then believe that she may have made up the story. I think that memory distortion happens to everyone. It is common for one to think that only their memory is distorted. Memory distortion affects our memories by switching up the order, ending the memory before it's done, and / or adding things to the memory that weren't really there. This is like when someone tries to re-tell a dream that he/she…

essential to my work. The book review discusses public memory as a narrative structure that serves as a rough organizational principle. It serves as a way to identify patterns of commemoration. The review offers a list of signpost to address the politics of memory. 1. Public memory which contains a slowly shifting configuration of traditions, is ideologically important because it shapes a nation’s ethos and sense of identity. That explains why memory is always selective and is so often…

The article written by Katie Palmer discusses several experiments done to be able to observe the activity of the brain and locate which area of the brain activates creativity. One study done by Stanford is to study the brain while the participants plays Pictionary because Pictionary is a great example of visual creativity. While playing Pictionary, Stanford’s goal is to study the are of the brain that is activated. A control task is carefully designed to eliminate other conditions and…

repressed memory? A repressed memory is a memory of a traumatic experience unconsciously kept in the mind, where it is said to affect conscious desire, though, and action. The debate over this has been going on for many years. Many people believe that therapists and hypnosis bring on these memories. They believe that the therapist may influence someone to believe something that didn’t happen to them. Recovered memories and hypnosis are often known to be related. A recovered memory is a memory…

peak controversial, most frequently debated, and lurid topic in this field is the false memory debate. Society has seen a staggering increase in cases of repressed memories surfacing; in fact, there have been so many that it is now being considered an epidemic. These types of memories are “often ‘recovered’ during psychotherapy and have resulted in fierce debate concerning the reality and reliability of such memories” (Memon & Young, 1998). It is the psychological debate heard around the word…

THE cache memory is a quick and small and, in layman's terms, it is basically a middleman between the processor and main memory. Caches are used so that you do not have to go all the way back to the main memory if you do not have to. Think about it, this process is not something that is new to us. We used this exact same method in junior high and high school, comparatively lockers are main memory and cache memory is a book bag. Instead of always having to go to a locker after every class a…

Is memory ever perfect? In order to answer this question, several psychologists have investigated human memory and revealed that memory is highly reconstructive and not perfect. A study conducted by Bartlett aimed to investigate whether people’s memory is affected by previous knowledge and the extent to which memory is reconstructive uncovered that our memory is not fully correct and it’s reconstructive to make informations more understandable and efficient for us. Thus, Bartlett presented…

three items to be remembered. Second area was difficulty counting back from one hundred by sevens (Demential Today website, n.d.). Mini-Mental Status Exam results show that JS is very alert, oriented, and cognitively aware. JS verbalized that her memory is not as good as it was and found that she needs to take notes or write information down to remember it. No other problems identified. Fall Prevention Scale JS scored…

“Acute Exercise Improves Motor Memory: Exploring Potential Biomarkers” is a study published in Neurobiology of Learning & Memory that focuses on the potential role several biomarkers have on exercise induced improvements of human motor skill acquisition and retention (Skriver et al., 2014). This correlational study expands on an earlier study conducted by Roig, Skriver, Lundbye-Jensen, Kiens, & Nielsen which found that a single cardiovascular exercise session improved motor skill learning by…