Article: Pot and ... I forgot. (effects of marijuana on memory)

Article: SIGN LANGUAGE STUDY REVEALS KEY FINDING ABOUT SHORT-TERM ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 1, 2006 ;     680 words ... ... misunderstood a key aspect of short term memory because of shortcomings in the way they ... suggested that ASL users have smaller short term memory capacity than hearing people. But Margaret ... psychology at UCSC, found that short term memory is equal when laboratory conditions ...

Article: Long and short-term memory theory challenged.
Asian News International;  November 10, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... supports long-term but not short-term memory However, the UCL study shows that this ... The researchers noted that short-term memory about more detailed aspects of the scene ... brain areas, while standard short-term memory drew on a very different network. The ...

Article: Visual short-term memory is not improved by ...
Memory & Cognition;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... question in visual working or short-term memory (VSTM) research is whether the ability ... another memory system, visual long-term memory (VLTM). Training was done by repeatedly ... of memory displays, creating long-term memory traces for these displays. Surprisingly ...

Article: University of Iowa Researchers Find Adult-Like Short Term ...
Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  December 9, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... shows that infants' visual short-term memory -- a key element of brain development ... objects infants could hold in short-term memory at different ages between six and 12 ... conclusively that infants have visual short-term memory and that its capacity is similar to ...

Article: Noah and Joseph effects in government budgets: analyzing ...
Policy Studies Journal;  August 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Budgets: Path Dependence or Long-Term Memory? In the broadest sense, path dependence ... matters" notion. The notion of "long-term memory" better captures many of the implicit ... from 1800 to 2004 to examine how long-term memory (and especially memory of dramatic ...

Article: Visual short-term memory operates more efficiently ...
Perception and Psychophysics;  February 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... used to estimate the visual short-term memory storage capacity for either the orientation ... referred to here as visual short-term memory. Recent work has shown that the upper ... that can be stored in visual short-term memory is quite small, on the order of about ...

Article: Scientists solve mystery of long-term memory ...
Life Science Weekly;  November 2, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... the key events and proteins involved in long-term memory. Their findings, published in Science, provide ... become permanent - in other words, how short-term memory becomes long-term memory. A key question has been to identify the exact ...