How many types of memory are there? There are three types of memory in psychology: sensory, short-term, and long-term. Each type of memory has its own characteristics, and some break down into subcategories. You unconsciously control your sensory memory, like following your commuter route wit...
Reactivation of earlier perceptual activity is thought to underlie long-term memory recall. Despite evidence for this view, it is unclear whether mnemonic activity exhibits the same tuning properties as feedforward perceptual activity. Here, we leverage
Because event segmentation is ubiquitous, relatively automatic, and foundational to healthy cognitive function3,4, there has been intense interest in characterizing the factors that facilitate the discrete organization of episode memory. The temporal stability of different types of contexts may play an ...
A prompt, such as that the restaurant was named after its owner, who spoke to you about your shared interest in soccer, may help you recall the name of the restaurant. Long-term memory is divided into two types: explicit and implicit ([link]). Understanding the different types is ...
In this article, I focus on the roles of empirical versus logical truth in psychology. I believe that, for every psychological proposition, one must ask whether it is empirical or not, that is, whether its truth value must be determined by gathering data, or by conceptual/logical analysis. ...
worry about future events, and make plans. It is what enables humankind to “take full advantage of its awareness of its continued existence in time” and has allowed us to transform the natural world into one of numerous civilizations and cultures. Through this facility, “time’s arrow is ...
First, I offer the biomedical explanation of the disease (and its relationship to dementia) to help situate my discussion in terms of this medicalized discourse. Dementia is a condition that is marked by cognitive or behavioral impairments in at least two of the following domains: “remembering ...
The key here is to engage in activities that lead to the formation of new neurons in the brain as well as new connections between existing neurons. This helps maintain the brain’s cognitive reserve – its ability to avoid memory loss. ...
All of us have a vested interest in understanding how memory is affected by ageing. Two kinds of question dominate research on memory and ageing—(1) First, one needs to know what tasks and activities are adversely affected by ageing and to what extent. (2) Secondly, to predict and explai...
phenomenon known as eidetic imagery apparently resembles ordinary mental imagery in intentionality, but is said to be phenomenologically distinct in point of its great vividness, detail, and stability, and because it is “externally projected,” experienced as “out there” rather than “in the head...