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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

ISBN 978-0-393-97768-4. Phelps EA (April 2004). "Human emotion and memory: interactions of the amygdala and hippocampal complex". Current Opinion in Neurobiology...

Involuntary memory, also known as involuntary explicit memory, involuntary conscious memory, involuntary aware memory, madeleine moment, mind pops and most commonly...

American psychiatrist, researcher, teacher, and author who has focused on the understanding and treatment of incest and traumatic stress. Herman is Professor...

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

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

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...

Repressed memory is a controversial, and largely scientifically discredited, psychiatric phenomenon which involves an inability to recall autobiographical...

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...

explicit memory (declarative memory) and implicit memory (non-declarative memory). Explicit memory is broken down into episodic and semantic memory, while...

regulation of hunger, research on the neural basis of learning and memory, and in certain social phenomena such as the false consensus effect. Classical conditioning...

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

scientifically controversial and remains disputed. Dissociative amnesia was previously known as psychogenic amnesia, a memory disorder, which was characterized...

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...

between the limits of one-dimensional absolute judgment and the limits of short-term memory. In a one-dimensional absolute-judgment task, a person is...

WKS as a single syndrome. It mainly causes vision changes, ataxia and impaired memory. The cause of the disorder is thiamine (vitamin B1) deficiency. This...