Recollecting, Recognizing, and Other Acts of Remembering: An Overview of...

Journal of Neurologic Physical Therapy;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......declarative memory: memory for events (episodic memory) and memory for facts (semantic memory). Episodic Memory: General Characteristics Episodic memory refers to memory for personally experienced...

Making memories.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO);  March 18, 2005 ;     700+ words ......to do with the fact that memory is the essence of who we are. Episodic memory_it's what keeps track of...the experience when the memory was made. For example...conversation. Short-term memory: This is the working memory where people live moment...daily tasks. They need memory ...

Birds have a memory similar to humans'

AP Online;  September 16, 1998 ;     631 words ......Previously, many scientists believed episodic memory was unique to humans. This type...keys on a table in the hall. Episodic memory functions in a fundamentally...that birds use some form of episodic memory is enormously important, said...

Long-term memory of extreme events: from autobiography to history.

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......representations of autobiographical memory, wh ich are largely the province...between oral traditional memory and autobiographical memory, so that the 'schematism...these works is that between episodic memory and semantic memory; these...cognitive tasks they undertake. ...

Thanks for the future memories: to the brain, remembering the past and...

Science News;  June 21, 2008 ;     700+ words ......that this reverse role of memory may help explain why the human memory system is designed the...current studies focus on episodic memory, or memories of events...thinking about the future. Episodic memory seems to be important when...

Researchers say birds have a memory similar to humans'

AP Online;  September 17, 1998 ;     540 words ......events formed and stored?'' Episodic memory functions in a fundamentally...events is a crucial element of episodic memory. In a second test, the researchers...the birds were displaying true episodic memory. And they noted that studies...

YOU'VE GOT A GOOD MEMORY, BIRDBRAIN!(News)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  September 17, 1998 ;     388 words ......Previously, many scientists believed episodic memory was unique to humans. This type...keys on a table in the hall. Episodic memory functions in a fundamentally...that birds use some form of episodic memory is enormously important, said...

Drug helps patients manage traumatic memories

University Affairs;  May 1, 2006 ;     474 words ......unfolding of the event, what we call episodic memory. What we tackle, with a certain...different parts of the brain. Episodic memory is found in the hippocampus, for example, while emotional memory rests in the amygdala. According...

Functional Mechanisms of Episodic Memory Impairment in Schizophrenia

Canadian Journal of Psychiatry;  November 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......functional mechanisms underlying episodic memory dysfunction in schizophrenia...reviews empirical evidence of episodic memory dysfunction in schizophrenia...various theoretical models of episodic memory. Results: All the studies converge...

Memory and Schizophrenia

Canadian Journal of Psychiatry;  November 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......domains of cognition are affected, episodic memory measures consistently show the...groups.1-3 Many patients exhibit episodic memory dysfunctions prior to the manifestation...come to the conclusion that episodic memory impairment indeed represents...

Memory Encoding and Retrieval in the Aging Brain

Clinical EEG and Neuroscience;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Memory Encoding and Retrieval Episodic Memory (EM) Effect Event-Related Potentials...Selection ABSTRACT Decline in episodic memory, the encoding and retrieval...understanding of age-related episodic memory failure. These data reveal that...

Health: A trip down memory lane.(M Health)

The Mirror (London, England);  June 13, 2002 ;     167 words ...Test your episodic memory The most fragile part...ago, you're using your episodic memory. If you were introduced...friends? Test your skilled memory This is learning to do...age. Test your working memory If someone gives you a...

BIRD BRAINS JUST FINE FOR MEMORY

The Columbian;  September 17, 1998 ;     700+ words ......for events formed and stored?" Episodic memory functions in a fundamentally...events is a crucial element of episodic memory. In a second test, the researchers...the birds were displaying true episodic memory. And they noted that studies...

The Hippocampus As a "Stupid," Domain-Specific Module: Implications for...

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......neuropsychological theories of memory. It is still a matter of...for the organisation of memory and the brain follow from...theories of recent and remote episodic, semantic, and spatial memory and for the functions that episodic memory may serve in perception...Keywords: hippocampal ...

BOSTON UNIVERSITY RECEIVES $9.2 MILLION SILVIO O. CONTE GRANT FOR MEMORY...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 21, 2006 ;     520 words ......a better understanding of episodic memory and its deterioration associated...cortical structures that control episodic memory. Working with the hypothesis...prominent alternate views: that memory for order is a reflection...is specialized for spatial memory, and that organization of ...