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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Transplant patients experiencing changes in preferences to match their donors
Similar to Where exactly do Emotions and Feelings arise in the human body?, I have been hearing of a phenomenon where transplant patients have been experiencing changes in preferences to match their ...
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Why can I sometimes retrive memories when not thinking actively about it but can't when actively thinking?
To speed up time my efficiency on the computer, I had started to use key bindings. These are some keys you press together and you'll directly get a desired result. One common one I use is the windows ...
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Replication or conceptual replication of card trick in Mind Field Ep 8?
In Mind Field S1 E8 Michael Stevens presents a magician performing a trick with participants. Each participant is shown pairs of photographs of people and are given the forced choice of which one they ...
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Why is memory selective in storing sometimes irrelevant details and discarding important things?
This has happened many times: I recall unimportant details and forget the important things.
Everyone will recognize this for sure, for example when studying topography, you know which number ...
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Could memory storage be infinite or is it very unlikely? [duplicate]
We don’t know how memories are stored in the brain, how much “space” a memory takes up and how many neurons can be stored in one synapse. That being said- someone once said (I think it was Wired ...
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Is aphantasia an inability to record memories, or an inability to recall memories?
People with aphantasia are unable to voluntarily create or recall mental images.
This can extend to non-visual memory too (e.g. remembering that they heard a loud bang, but not remembering the sound ...
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Is post-traumatic stress disorder preventable?
Victims of abuse, people exposed to violent situations repeatedly, and people in war zones can develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result. PTSD is very common and has lifelong effects ...
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Spider removing a piece of grass from its web -- very different behavior second time -- why?
This was an experiment I performed so no link to the event nor the scientist's interpretation which was in an old email I no longer have access to.
The first time, the spider cautiously approached the ...
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Is it possible to erase problematic memories?
This question is inspired by a question I answered on Health.
Can we erase problematic memories to aid recovery from depression?
A depressed person asked how to erase specific unpleasant memories ...
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Faithfully recounting the events of the day
Let us say that a person $x$ can faithfully recount day $d$ if $x$ can mention at least $2$ things she did in the first half of the day, and the same for the second half of the day.
I suppose we could ...
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Why could too much BDNF be detrimental in terms of depression and memory?
I am interested in looking at the effects of too much BDNF and other proteins such as repressor element one silencing transcription factor (REST). Most research suggest that elevated levels are ...
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Deja vu and some specifics
Deja vu is the feeling of having been where you are presently at some point in the past (usually pointed to dreams because you often cant remember dreams). What would you call that distant memory you ...
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Equivalent term for muscle memory in the intellectual domain?
In the latest newsletter of The Batch by Andrew Ng, he wrote that:
All of this leads me to think that we need an equivalent term for muscle memory in the intellectual domain. As knowledge work has ...
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Pros & Cons of "Memory Palace" vs regular "Working Memory"
Hi I'm trying to understand the limitations of the techniques which "memory champions" employ, in comparison to say: working memory.
Working memory seems quite limited, but it is at least ...
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Is abstract knowledge incompatible with literal memorization?
Let me describe 2 interesting cases :
Solomon Shereshevsky (Luria, 1968) had an almost perfect literal memory. He remembers strings of hundreds of digits for years after only having read them once. I ...
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Are there any measurement techniques to evaluate the prospective memory (PM) in laboratory?
The prospective memory (PM) term has been drawing attention since its proposed. But as far as I know, most of the research has been conducted in a real-life situation and there is no measurement ...
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Learning by traumatization
Psychological trauma is known to be persistent in memory and easy to remember with the disadvantage of in part severely limiting day to day life.
Are there papers that evaluated the idea of causing ...
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Is it possible for someone to not remember something, but to remember that one used to remember it?
Is it possible for someone to forgot an incident or memory, yet still remember that one used to remember it? If so, can someone give me an example?
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Are unannounced tests unexpected by participants?
I was looking into whether unannounced (memory) tests were actually unexpected by participants, and if the benefits accredited to unannounced tests are well-founded. Considering that students are ...
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Would it make sense to measure the "Forgetting Curve" with non human animals, on smaller units of information?
Would it make sense to measure the "Forgetting Curve" with non human animals, on smaller units of information?
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The theory of "Forgetting curves" is at the basis of ...
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Which proportion of species of non human animals exhibit a "forgetting curve" similar to that of humans?
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Are there some experimental results supporting the existence of a "forgetting curve" in most non human animals similar to that of humans?
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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 is verbal memory useful for?
A friend of mine did the Verbal Memory Test at http://humanbenchmark.com/ and got an extremely high score (almost 300 words). English is not his first language and he knew the meaning of only about ...
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What is the correlation between working memory and long term memory?
(First of all, sorry if this is a silly question; this is not my discipline.)
I am planning on conducting a study, and one of the things I would like to have is a sense of participants' long-term ...
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selective memory bias and the ideal self [closed]
Personal theory is that selective memory bias is a component of bias towards the ideal self.
A person is more likely to remember those things that promote the ideal self while warping or forgetting ...
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Why do we forget what we learnt after the completion of exams?
I have just read about this question but i forgot the name of this effect. As far as i remembered the effect was discovered and formulated by some russian scientist but i couldn't remember his name. ...
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Is it possible to disassociate working memory and consciousness?
The traditional view holds that consciousness and working memory has linked tightly. But some researches have some proofs against this idea. The study said that people can reading and doing arithmetic ...
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Electric communication between single neurons
It is believed that neurons communicate through neurotransmitters, released from multiple synapses and flow to the axon of the next neuron. But has it been shown if a single neuron communicate with a ...
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How do we memorize ordered lists?
We have to memorize a lot of ordered lists in life and in our education period.
In chemistry, we memorize the Metal Reactivity Series and Periodic Table.
Being a table tennis player myself, I can ...
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How do humans remember information?
When conversing, I often find myself using words or conveying ideas that I wasn't aware that I knew, nor whether these words/ideas were actually relevant to the conversation. It is only after googling ...
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Is memory adversely affected after you stop smoking?
An answer to Can you use harmful addictions to build good habits? points to an interesting article by Heishman et al. (2010) which points out that:
Short-term episodic memory-accuracy Analysis of the ...
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Why memory studies was a strong area of research during 90's?
Memory studies seemed to have flourished during nineties - particularly early nineties.
Not only in Psychology, but in neuroscience, in social sciences, in History, there was a period in which a lot ...
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What makes a neural pathway relevant to a memory?
When a neural network is created for a certain memory, what makes that neural network relevant to the memory? In other words, what property of the neural network stimulates the retrieval of the memory?...
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How is the memory compressed when moving from the hippocampus to the PFC?
I have recently been intrigued by memory. I found that the hippocampus stores new memories.
In sleep, the newly formed memories are moved to the neocortex.
I was curious about how this transition ...
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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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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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Which format of authentication would be most efficient for human memory? [closed]
Introduction:
There are many ways to authenticate when it comes to data access: passwords, numeric PIN-s, visual passwords, gestures, etc.
A common form of authentication, an 8-character password over ...
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Why do some people have better memories than others?
Some people have great memories. Some people have horrible memories. There are even people with hyperthymesia who remember everything. I was told that anybody can have a good memory if they practice ...
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how do the neurons get stronger physically? [closed]
I wanna know about the possibility of simulating the brain state physically to know about the possibility of getting an answer for (free will or random will) vs determinism in the future.
so for the ...
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Is there a term for trying to remember a word, but only remembering its first letter?
This happens to me frequently. I'll say, "Oh you know that guy... uhh... I can't remember his name. But he starts with a 'Z'." You can remember part of the word but not the whole word.
Is there a ...
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Does our subconscious retain more than our conscious mind does? [closed]
Such as If you read a book, yet can't recite/directly recall most of it. Is what you read stored in your subconscious or do you forget it right after you read it, or did you not retain it in the first ...
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Is long term memory less a matter of "pure meaning" than short term stores usually are?
Fernyhough (2004) proposed that inner speech should take two distinct
forms: expanded inner speech, in which internal dialogue retains many
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Would you still be addicted to something if you lost your memory of being addicted to it? [duplicate]
If someone was addicted to something, it could be substances/gambling/sex etc... and then they lost their memory. It could be just losing the memory of the addiction or full blown global amnesia ...
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How does our brain remember reminders?
I was wondering about a rather remarkable phenomenon regarding how we recollect reminders. I've read stories where people keep a pillow, or even figures and dolls, near their door to make them ...
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Difference in neural activity of a thought vs. a memory
I want to understand the difference in neural activity between a "thought" and a "memory impression". Is it a "thought" while the neural activity is present in working ...
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Is "belief" in folk psychology just a sub-type of memory?
In folk psychology, we talk about beliefs. For instance, you can ask someone, why did you increase your investment in the stock market? He may say, well, I believe that the stock market will likely go ...
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What is a Good Working Memory Test Online (or overall if none)?
By good, I mean three things:
Accepted by professional doctors/psychologists/psychiatrists.
Has supporting research.
Has an established norm and can tell you where you are relative to the ...
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What is the information storage capacity of the human brain?
Related/bonus points: I seem to remember reading about some equation that states the amount of information that can be held by a neural network with n neurons in it arranged in l layers, or something ...
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Non-binary scores for backward digit span (BDS)
A common test of memory span is to display or utter a sequence of numbers and then request that a candidate being assessed repeat that sequence of numbers in reverse order. Typically, the candidate's ...
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Improving backward item retention
I am trying to improve my performance in auditory backward retention tests. The task consists in trying to repeat in the reverse order the longest possible series of digits after hearing a series of ...