Questions tagged [memory]
For questions about the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information in the brain. This tag encompasses research all the way from the molecular level in model organisms to abstract mathematical representations, and includes applied learning paradigms and tasks.
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Memory Retention of [submininal] information
How effective is memory retention of [subliminal] information when specifically focusing your attention on a different focal point?
I.e... If I attempt to retain information from a lecture by playing ...
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Is there a benefit for humans to lose memory access when under elongated periods of stress?
Long term anxiety causes memory loss. Sources: https://www.calmclinic.com/anxiety/signs/memory-loss and https://now.uiowa.edu/2014/06/stress-hormone-linked-short-term-memory-loss-we-age
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Is Orwellian Double-think Psychologically Possible?
In George Orwell's 1984, a great deal of space is devoted to explaining "Double-think," part of The Party's method of "reality control." Here's a particularly clear passage:
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Are there "place cells" for temporal encoding?
First of all, I have to say I am not a neuroscientist but I like to learn about neuroscience. I understand there are sets of neurons called "place cells" and "grid cells" which ...
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What do psychologists call the ability to quickly revise and remember things that a person had previously learnt
I am someone very far away from psychology, actually an engineering student, but I came up with this curiosity a few days ago.
To be specific, let's assume someone is learning physics. He previously ...
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Memory game - short or long-term memory?
There is a game where "a suitcase is packed" and you have to remember all the words or objects that are packed into the suitcase.
Each participant adds a new word to the "chain of words&...
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From a general perspective, why are we more likely to remember wanting to do something, but not specifically what it is?
I have experienced several mind pops and instant recalls based on triggered events, and some might come suddenly, or they might gradually appear.
Sometimes, though, I remember something that I would ...
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Is it possible to memorize the sound of a certain pitch?
Those how have an absolute pitch can name the note when they hear it. For those who don't have this ability is it possible to remember a pitch of at least one note?
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To what extent are testimonies of "spiritual experiences" reliable?
After reading/watching hundreds of testimonies of people sharing their own personal spiritual experiences, and after analyzing how different skeptics react to these testimonies, I've come to the ...
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Difficulties in recollecting memory, when execution speed of an action is slow
I learnt to solve Rubik's cube 2 - 3 years ago, I used to practice once in a while, I can solve Rubik's cube within a minute.
One day, I went to my uncle's house, my nephew had a Rubik's cube, I ...
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Measure of short term memory
I'm doing a study on the impact of video quality and memory. The subject groups are going to watch a video of someone reciting 20 or so facts, and then will be asked to recall the facts or answer ...
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Why do we sometimes forget the retrospective component of a particular task?
I'm sure everyone experienced it quite a few times before. For example, sometimes when we go to the kitchen to grab something the moment we get to the kitchen you forget what you were trying to get. ...
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Contextual freezing decline after exposure to CS (Fear Conditioning)
I am trying to find the literature or a phenomenon name to explain the following condition,
Animals are trained with cued fear conditioning (Context A), then at testing, they have two consecutive ...
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Rivermead Behavioral Memory Test- item 19- Belongings Delayed Recall scoring
OT student here scoring the RBMT and for the Belongings Delayed recall section the manual does not describe a common situation I have encountered:
The client requires prompting to recall there are two ...
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How can we make the most of a cramming session?
While spaced repetition would be ideal, if we are forced into a situation requiring cramming, how can we maximize the short term benefit?
Consider a hypothetical scenario: I am locked in an isolated ...
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What is the neuroscientific difference between learning/memorizing and understanding in the brain?
I'm trying to understand how our brains - neurons or other chemical processes work in regards to learning/ memorizing and understanding.
I found a lot of "theoretical" discussions on the topic- e.g. ...
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Which are some good books to research spaced repetition and long term memory?
I am developing an application to help students remember what they learn.
But I need deeper and more grounded research in topics of:
Spaced repetition / Revision
Forgetting Curve
Long term memory
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Does Ativan / lorazepam ever cause unconsciousness, or only memory loss? [closed]
An Ativan injection, probably 20-min after the event, erased my memory starting 30-min prior to the event until (maybe 1-hour or so?) after the event. Because of memory loss, the injuries were the ...
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Most efficient (highest-bandwidth) memory encoding scheme?
Memory competitions have different events; most of them revolve around memorizing digits, cards, faces, etc. over a defined period of time. However, world champions use established techniques like ...
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Does PTSD related courage (coping mechanisms) run parallel with bad memory in patients? [closed]
From Hayes, et al. (2012)
Some researchers have suggested that patients with PTSD have an
enhanced ability to forget information, which may explain amnesia for
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Are memories stored as patterns of chemicals/emotions?
Lately, I (as someone with no experience or prior knowledge in the topic) have been thinking about...thinking. The part that intrigues me the most is memory. As a computer-y type person, I tend to ...
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Why some people can't see color in memory or dreams
Some of my friends told me they never see color in memory or dreams, is this some kind of symptom? Does it have a name in psychology?
I did some search on internet, but seems most pages did not ...
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Why can't we remember being babies? [duplicate]
I once watched a YouTube video explaining that it was because it was an evolutionary disadvantage to remember it better because you might do something like electrocute yourself with an electrical ...
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How is a memory lost? [duplicate]
Firstly, I have an incredibly rudimentary understanding of how neurons interact etc.
My understanding of memory representation is that it's a group of interconnected neurons that fire in some ...
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Common latent feature among all "memory techniques"
So I've been delving into "memory techniques" and people who compete in memory competitions(memorizing and reciting a poem in a small amount of time, memorizing a deck of cards, memorizing pi, etc). I'...
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Are there disadvantages to spaced repetition?
In his essay Michael Nielsen talks about his way of learning about new field of study. He's using spaced-repetition to remember things he learned. It seems that he adds a lot of information into his ...
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Memory Retention : isolated information vs emphasized information in a heap
I have observed that when learning new words (vocabulary building), if we are presented with, say, 5 new words in these 2 manners:
only 5 words presented in isolation
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Inability to associate a face with a name
I know there is a medical condition called "Prosopagnosia" that is described as:
a cognitive disorder of face perception in which the ability to recognize familiar faces, including one's own face (...
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Why are some specific names / items harder to remember
I will take an example specific to myself to illustrate:
Having a very solid music culture and a quite good one about movies, a few cues usually help me remember the works in question.
Sometimes I ...
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How do different dendritic spines experience a correlated/coupled calcium signaling?
The following quote from the discussion in a review paper by Higley and Sabatini:
Finally, several studies demonstrate the ability of dendritic Ca
transients to herald near-synchronous and ...
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Importance of memory on learning?
I've been studying into the important of memory and learning. I think it's undeniable that part of learning is requiring the retrieval of information at the relevant times, but the counter argument I'...
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What's the memory capacity of the human brain? [duplicate]
This article,
Human brain can store..
claims the memory has a capacity of around 1 petabyte or quadrillion bytes.
This other one,
What's the memory capacity of the human brain
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N-Back implementation?
I'm a programmer writing a small n-Back test/game app,and certain things are still ambiguous to me:
1-is there a standard implementation used in research(for example displaying a sequence of pictures ...
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Can repetitive music help remember by increasing theta waves?
Can repetitive music (minimal) help remember by increasing theta waves?
As far as I understand theta waves are involved in memory tasks. If correct, can I try increase theta waves with audio neuro-...
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Recovery of memory especially working memory after depression
The impact of depression on memory and working memory has been discussed extensively in the thread below.
I can't seem to find information about rehabilitation and recovery of memory after depression....
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Why do some people not remember their dreams?
Why does the ability to recall dreams varies greatly from person to person?
Why Some Remember Dreams, Others Don't
https://www.livescience.com/38856-why-people-recall-dreams.html
I decided to ask ...
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Does learning by heart improve memorizing abilities?
Some people around me believe that if you learn poems by heart in childhood, it will help you to memorize things better further. They say about improvements in memory in general: things like ...
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Term for remembering the location/position of text on a page as part of the memory recall process?
Is there a name for the phenomenon of remembering the position on a page or location in a book as part of the process of recalling a memory? For example, knowing that something was on the left side ...
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What information does the connectome actually contain?
I am not a brain scientist but the following question seems reasonable to me.
Prof. Sebastian Seung has given a TED talk named "I Am My Connectome". If I understand correctly, connectome is ...
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Is there a specific term for the notion of storing "algorithms" in human memory?
It seems to me that there is a pretty sharp distinction between storing a "fact" like "Chickens are birds" and storing an algorithm or routine like "how to multiply two 3-digit numbers". I find the ...
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Do we learn to improve our working memory capacity without sitting WM tests?
Do we learn to improve our working memory capacity without sitting WM tests?
Working memory capacity can be measured, but I wondered whether the only way to improve it is learning techniques for ...
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Does studying multiples subjects in parallel effect performance? [duplicate]
Researches shown that multitasking is really bad.
But, does studying multiple subjects in parallel comes under it?
Is it okay to switch between the subjects (mathematics, physics, biology, ....) In ...
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Is there a reliable memory-retention guidance chart?
As discussed here reliability of some charts are dubious. I would like to use such a chart for studying purposes and am looking for something peer-reviewed or as factual as possible. Does it exist?
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How to measure the correlation between "spirituality" and the susceptibility to false memories?
Is there a measurement to correlate "spirituality" (how religious one is) to susceptibility to false memories? What papers or keywords should we look for?
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How to prepare when entering the field of Psychology from a professional UX background?
I come from a Computer Science and professional User Experience (UX) Design background and I'll soon be starting an MSc conversion course in Psychology. My interest is to understand human behaviour ...
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How can different ion channels of the same type have different cell responses?
The NMDA receptor is an ion channel and contributes to synaptic plasticity and memory. It is said that calcium ion flux through the receptor is critical for this mechanism. However, there are other ...
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Why can't human thoughts be stored in metals?
As metals are good conductors of electricity and they can be charged by the electrical activity of thoughts, why can't human thoughts be stored in metals?
Why thoughts cannot be stored in the form of ...
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Term/phrase for remembering the negative over the positive
I work in UX (user experience) which involves a lot of psychological principles to various degrees and came across an interesting thought about bad experiences.
My question is, is there some kind of ...
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In which way does what you do right after class affect knowledge retention?
For example going for a walk in the woods right after the class sounds like a much better idea than to binge watch 5 Rick & Morty episodes... but why?
In which way do your right-after-class ...
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How to train/develop photographic memory?
In this older post, @Beofett asked whether photographic memory (I don't really know if this is the correct term) was even possible...
For me, photographic memory is the impressing ability to remember ...
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