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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Why do I feel like I was just reminded of something during a focal seizure? [closed]
For several years as a kid, I had focal seizures affecting my left temporal lobe. When I had them, it would sometimes feel as if some stimulus around me had remimded me of something, but I couldn't ...
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What sense of "Self" remains after memory loss?
My knowledge of this is very limited but I am wondering when people loose their memory and ask this question, "Who am I?!", what conception of Self remains. Has some study been done on such ...
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Determining the difficulty of text memorization quantitatively
Is there a way (is it even possible?) of determining a quantitative value of how difficult a bit of text is to memorize? My guess is that (from the text itself) this might be related to: length of ...
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Does the brain reload old memories to make sense of things on waking up?
It's related to a string of claims I found on this post: https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/a/78860/88743 But when I googled it I didn't find anything to back this claim. Nothing suggesting the ...
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Evidence of flattening forgetting curves with spaced repetition and formulas to predict them
Forgetting curves are a well understood and well studied subject. The original research results from Ebbinghaus (the black line) have been replicated by third parities. However in many illustrations, ...
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Knowing position of keys on keyboard
When I type on a QWERTY keyboard, I know exactly where to find my letters in a split-second, without even watching. Then why don't I know the order of the keys by heart? What kind of automatic or ...
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Combining Data from Multiple Participants for Statistical Analysis in a Facial Expression Memory Task
I am working on a project involving a memory task for facial expressions, consisting of two phases: Encoding Phase: There are 8 trials in which participants view 8 different virtual characters, each ...
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Ability to shift attention quickly and continue conversations from years ago seamlessly
Noam Chomsky asserted that he has "sort of buffers in the brain that allow [him] to shift back and forth from one project to the other and store one" and that he "can pick up after a ...
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How are dreams "experienced" if recall is correlated with waking during a specific cycle of sleep (REM sleep)?
My understanding of dreams, from some basic research, seems to be that they occur during REM sleep and are likely forgotten unless waking happens during REM sleep, which is correlated with dream ...
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Is there any research on episodic-like memory in reptiles?
I've been studying the area of episodic-like memory in non-human animals and reptiles seems to be really underrepresented (or not represented at all). Is there any research that I am missing? Anything ...
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Which sleep stage(s) account(s) for synaptic consolidation the most?
I learnt that long-term consolidation of memories happens vastly while we are asleep, and it is accompanied by synaptic changes. But exactly which stage(s) of our sleep account for the synaptic ...
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Roles of Brain Regions (neocortex and hippocampus) in Explicit (declarative) LTM
My question is what is the role of the hippocampus, neocortex and amygdala in the encoding, storage and retrieval of declarative (explicit) memory, specifically episodic and semantic I am sort of ...
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Observational Learning - Where does encoding, storage and retrieval occur?
It has been taught to me that there are 5 stages (or requirements) that enable observational learning to occur. That is, attention, retention, reproduction, motivation and reinforcement. My teachers ...
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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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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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