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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

(/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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

memories from the observer perspective. Studies also show that events with greater social interaction and significance produce more observer memories...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...