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...

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...

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...

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...

(/nəˈmɒnɪk/ nə-MON-ik), memory trick or memory device is any learning technique that aids information retention or retrieval in the human memory, often by associating...

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...

ataxia and impaired memory. The cause of the disorder is thiamine (vitamin B1) deficiency. This can occur due to eating disorders, malnutrition, and alcohol...

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...

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...

memory syndrome (FMS) was a proposed "pattern of beliefs and behaviors" in which a person's identity and relationships are affected by false memories...

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...

learning, and social interactions, but vary widely across the autism spectrum. Some of the earliest references to the topic of autism and memory dated back...

consolidation of memories in the way that "interactions between the medial temporal lobe and various lateral cortical regions are thought to store memories outside...

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...

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

working memory. Other suggested names were short-term memory, primary memory, immediate memory, operant memory, and provisional memory. Short-term memory is...

Verbal memory, in cognitive psychology, is memory of words and other abstractions involving language. A variety of tests is used to gauge verbal memory, including...

temporary but almost total disruption of short-term memory with a range of problems accessing older memories. A person in a state of TGA exhibits no other signs...

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

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

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

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

role of memory engram cell ensembles in memory valence, social memory, as well as their role in brain disorders such as depression, amnesia, and Alzheimer's...

harboring memories of early abuse ... and cured them by unknotting their repression." Crews sees Freud as having anticipated the recovered memory movement...

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...