News tagged with semantic memory
Gone, but not forgotten: Scientists recall EP, perhaps the world's second-most famous amnesiac
An international team of neuroscientists has described for the first time in exhaustive detail the underlying neurobiology of an amnesiac who suffered from profound memory loss after damage to key portions ...
Neuroscience
Apr 22, 2013 |
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Re-learning words lost to dementia
A simple word-training program has been found to restore key words in people with a type of dementia that attacks language and our memory for words.
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Nov 27, 2012 |
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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 |
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When you can recite a poem but not remember who asked you to learn it a few days earlier
Memory is not a single process but is made up of several sub-processes relying on different areas of the brain. Episodic memory, the ability to remember specific events such as what you did yesterday, is known to be vulnerable ...
Neuroscience
Aug 11, 2011 |
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