Running head: MECHANISMS OF VISUAL AND TACTILE MEMORY An fMRI Study on the Separate Mechanisms of Visual and Tactile Memory An fMRI Study on the Separate Mechanisms of Visual and Tactile Memory An overview of Tactile Memory Tactile memory is part of sensory memory systems and it is the recollection of information acquired via touch. It is one of the primitive sensory codes that are used as interacting familiar objects. It is not only important to interact with familiar objects but it is also
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“Repressed memories are a figment of the imagination”. Critically discuss this statement. The concept of repression – which is the bone of contention between those who believe in the mission of recovery therapy and those who denounce it – presumes a peculiar power of the mind (Loftus and Ketchum‚ 1994). The current dispute regarding the existence of repression has mainly focused on whether people remember or forget trauma. Repression‚ however‚ is a multidimensional construct‚ which‚ in addition
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MEMORY AND PSYCHOLOGY: In psychology‚ memory is the processes by which information is encoded‚ stored‚ and retrieved. Encoding allows information that is from the outside world to reach our senses in the forms of chemical and physical stimuli. In this first stage we must change the information so that we may put the memory into the encoding process. Storage is the second memory stage or process. This entails that we maintain information over periods of time. Finally the third process is the retrieval
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show that therapies can cause false memories within individuals and that the recovery of false memories is often reported as true memories. What have other researchers already discovered about the research topic? Gauld & Stephenson‚ 1967; Roediger‚ Wheeler‚ & Rajaram‚1993‚ couldn’t replicate the same results that Bartlett (1932) had in memory recall experiments. They (Wheeler & Roediger)‚ on the contrary‚ showed subjects’ improvement in an experimental memory recall task. How does this study differ
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Explaining Memories Memory is defined as the faculty by which sense impressions and information are retained in the mind and subsequently recalled. A person’s capacity to remember and the total store of mentally retained impressions and knowledge also formulate memory. (Webster‚ 1992) The study of human memory and in particular the attempts to distinguish between different types of memory have been investigated for the last century. Philosophy‚ psychiatry‚ and psychology have all contributed to
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LO 1 Define psychology. “The study of behavior & mental process” LO 2 Describe the scope of psychology and its subfields. “The psychology is a broad field that includes many perspectives and SUBFIELDS. APA the American Psychological Association and the APS The Association for Psychological Science. Psychologists conduct two major types of research Basic research which is “often done in universities” and focuses on collecting data to support (or refute) theories and gathers knowledge for the sake
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THE MEMORY PROCESS Memory is a procedure through which the outcomes of knowledge are kept for impending usage. Hermann Ebbinghaus (1885) determined that considerable amount of what we learn is erase from our minds in a short length of time after it is learned‚ when it is learned through the use of sequential learning. Another method of learning is known as paired-associate learning‚ wherein the material learned must be repeated in the order in which it was given‚ also known as memorization.
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Working memory From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Working memory is the ability to actively hold information in the mind needed to do complex tasks such as reasoning‚ comprehension and learning. Working memory tasks are those that require the goal-oriented active monitoring or manipulation of information or behaviors in the face of interfering processes and distractions. The cognitive processes involved include the executive and attention control of short-term memory which provide for the interim
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autobiographical memory? Illustrate your answer with some examples from research “Autobiographical memory is a memory system consisting of episodes recollected from an individual’s life‚ based on a combination of episodic and semantic memory” (Williams‚ H. L.‚ Conway‚ M. A.‚ & Cohen‚ G. 2008). As you can see from this definition‚ autobiographical memory is a very broad topic when it comes down to memory. Some textbooks describe autobiographical memory to be just another name for episodic memory. In general
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Sensory Memory Sensory memory is the earliest stage of memory. During this stage‚ sensory information from the environment is stored for a very brief period of time‚ generally for no longer than a half-second for visual information and 3 or 4 seconds for auditory information. We attend to only certain aspects of this sensory memory‚ allowing some of this information to pass into the next stage - short-term memory. Short-Term Memory Short-term memory‚ also known as active memory‚ is the information
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