Memory supports and enables social interactions in a variety of ways. In order to engage in successful social interaction, people must be able to remember...

larger interactions show that collective memory in larger social networks can emerge due to cognitive mechanisms involved in small group interactions. With...

learned quickly for an imminent test and rote methods can be helpful for committing an understood fact to memory. However, students who learn with understanding...

with great contributions into memory research. Janet contributed to false memory through his ideas on dissociation and memory retrieval through hypnosis...

False memory, where imagination is mistaken for a memory. Social cryptomnesia, a failure by people and society in general to remember the origin of a change...

distinguished between two types of memory: the "natural" memory and the "artificial" memory. The former is inborn and is the one that everyone uses instinctively...

also known as hyperthymestic syndrome or highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM), is a condition that leads people to be able to remember an abnormally...

of false memory can be exemplified in prominent situations involving social interactions, such as eyewitness testimony. Research on memory conformity...

memory caused by brain damage or brain diseases, but it can also be temporarily caused by the use of various sedative and hypnotic drugs. The memory can...

concept is the strength of memory that refers to the durability that memory traces in the brain. The stronger the memory, the longer period of time that...

performance Emotion and memory Memory and aging Memory and social interactions Memory improvement Sleep study Biphasic and polyphasic sleep Walker, M.P.; Stickgold...

Memory rehearsal is a term for the role of repetition in the retention of memories. It involves repeating information over and over in order to get the...

Eidetic memory (/aɪˈdɛtɪk/ eye-DET-ik), also known as photographic memory and total recall, is the ability to recall an image from memory with high precision—at...

have a powerful effect on humans and animals. Numerous studies have shown that the most vivid autobiographical memories tend to be of emotional events,...

tenor and pianist who developed chronic anterograde and retrograde amnesia in 1985. Since then, he has lacked the ability to form new memories and cannot...

fixation points. Transsaccadic memory is a relatively new topic of interest in the field of psychology. Conflicting views and theories have spurred several...

there are long-term interactions between the hippocampus and neo-cortex and this leads to the establishment of aspects of memory within structures aside...

Confabulation is a memory error consisting of the production of fabricated, distorted, or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world. It is generally...

Baddeley's model of working memory is a model of human memory proposed by Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch in 1974, in an attempt to present a more accurate...

Exceptional memory is the ability to have accurate and detailed recall in a variety of ways, including hyperthymesia, eidetic memory, synesthesia, and emotional...

new memories after an event that caused amnesia, leading to a partial or complete inability to recall the recent past, while long-term memories from...

Verbal memory is a term used in cognitive psychology which refers to memory of words and other abstractions involving language. A variety of tests is...

memory include interference with a person's capacity to encode memory and the ability to retrieve information. Stimuli, like stress, improved memory when...

Explicit memory (or declarative memory) is one of the two main types of long-term human memory, the other of which is implicit memory. Explicit memory is the...

Short-term memory (or "primary" or "active memory") is the capacity for holding a small amount of information in an active, readily available state for...

physical or mental state is the same at time of encoding and time of recall. State-dependent memory is heavily researched in regards to its employment both...

monologue. When experiencing absent-mindedness, people exhibit signs of memory lapses and weak recollection of recent events. Absent-mindedness can usually...

and other behavioral and cognitive processes, which may include working memory and psychological vigilance. A relatively new body of research, which expands...

drug-induced amnesia, selective memory suppression, destruction of neurons, interruption of memory, memory reconsolidation, and the disruption of specific...

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