Indirect memory tests assess the retention of information without direct reference to the source of information. Participants are given tasks designed...

be 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...

the details of the event when confronted in an open-ended manner. Trying to indirectly prompt a memory recall can lead to the conflict of source attribution...

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 a person...

is the art of Winnie Bamara, an Australian indigenous artist of the 1950s. Ayumu – a chimpanzee whose performance in short-term memory tests is higher...

that Freud's confidence in accurate recall of early memories anticipates the theories of recovered memory therapists such as Lenore Terr, which in his...

poor performance on standardised memory tests and average performance at school, unable to apply her exceptional memory to her studies. Deficits in executive...

normal response to a faulty memory, are common in both amnesia and dementia, and can become apparent during memory tests. Spontaneous confabulations do...

memory is often used synonymously with short-term memory, but some theorists consider the two forms of memory distinct, assuming that working memory allows...

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...

and episodic memory. After administering a battery of neuropsychological tests, Vicari determined that C.L. performed well in tests of visual naming...

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...

effects of WKS, the researchers used a neuropsychological test battery that included tests of intelligence, speed of information processing, memory, executive...

conditioning from other forms of associative learning (e.g. instrumental learning and human associative memory), a number of observations differentiate them...

factual long-term memories, as well as his heavy impairment on certain spatial memory tests, Molaison was able to draw a quite detailed map of the topographical...

Since then, he has lacked the ability to form new memories and cannot recall aspects of his memories, frequently believing that he has only recently awoken...

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

Numerous studies have shown that the most vivid autobiographical memories tend to be of emotional events, which are likely to be recalled more often and...

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

Episodic memory is the memory of everyday events (such as times, location geography, associated emotions, and other contextual information) that can be...

given two types of tests: recognition memory tests and perceptual identification tests. These studies provided evidence that effects of memory on perceptual...

direct and indirect Coombs tests, also known as antiglobulin test (AGT), are blood tests used in immunohematology. The direct Coombs test detects antibodies...

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...

false memories in people. The technique was developed in the context of the debate about the existence of repressed memories and false memory syndrome...

Memory is the faculty of the mind by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. It is the retention of information over time...

A number of people claim to have eidetic memory, but science has never found a single verifiable case of photographic memory. Eidetic imagery is virtually...

1909) was a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory. Ebbinghaus discovered the forgetting curve and the spacing effect. He...

(/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...

Memory erasure is the selective artificial removal of memories or associations from the mind. Memory erasure has been shown to be possible in some experimental...

Long-term memory (LTM) is the stage of the Atkinson–Shiffrin memory model in which informative knowledge is held indefinitely. It is defined in contrast...