News tagged with declarative memory

If you can remember it, you can remember it wrong

(Medical Xpress)—Native peoples in regions where cameras are uncommon sometimes react with caution when their picture is taken. The fear that something must have been stolen from them to create the photo ...

Neuroscience May 21, 2013 | 4.3 / 5 (6) | 0 |

Neural interaction in periods of silence

German neurophysiologists have developed a new method to study widespread networks of neurons responsible for our memory.

Neuroscience Nov 21, 2012 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 1 |

Researchers create short-term memories in-vitro

Ben W. Strowbridge, PhD, Professor of Neurosciences and Physiology/Biophysics, and Robert A. Hyde, a fourth year MD/PhD student in the neurosciences graduate program at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, ...

Neuroscience Sep 10, 2012 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0 |

Suspicion resides in two regions of the brain

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on my parahippocampal gyrus.

Neuroscience May 17, 2012 | 5 / 5 (2) | 2 |

Learning best when you rest: Sleeping after processing new info most effective, new study shows

Nodding off in class may not be such a bad idea after all. New research from the University of Notre Dame shows that going to sleep shortly after learning new material is most beneficial for recall.

Psychology & Psychiatry Mar 23, 2012 | 4.9 / 5 (10) | 0 |

How do I remember that I know you know that I know?

(PhysOrg.com) -- “I’ll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time,” says the character Aaron in the 1987 movie Broadcast News. He and the woman he’s talking to have a lot of common ground, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Aug 24, 2011 | 2 / 5 (1) | 1 |

Neuroscientists identify how the brain remembers what happens and when

New York University neuroscientists have identified the parts of the brain we use to remember the timing of events within an episode. The study, which appears in the latest issue of the journal Science, enhances our unders ...

Neuroscience Aug 04, 2011 | 4 / 5 (3) | 0

Study demonstrates how memory can be preserved -- and forgetting prevented

As any student who's had to study for multiple exams can tell you, trying to learn two different sets of facts one after another is challenging. As you study for the physics exam, almost inevitably some of the information ...

Neuroscience Jul 08, 2011 | 4.9 / 5 (11) | 3 |

Binge drinkers have a decreased ability to learn new verbal information

Binge drinking is prevalent among university students, especially in the United States. One brain structure particularly sensitive to alcohol's neurotoxicity during development is the hippocampus, which plays a key role ...

Health May 16, 2011 | 3 / 5 (2) | 0