Sentences with phrase «in humans memory»

In humans memory can be said to define who we are; we know that loss of memory can have devastating effects on a person's personality.

Nothing sticks in the human memory like an emotionally charged story.

«Protein's role in human memory and learning: Deficiency in SNX27 could explain the learning difficulties in Down's syndrome.»

Elizabeth Loftus of the University of California, Irvine, a current member of the AAAS Board of Directors and a psychologist specializing in human memory, has received the 2016 John Maddox Prize, recognizing «sound science and evidence on a matter of public interest, facing difficulty or hostility in doing so.»

There has been notable progress recently in dissecting the function of hippocampal circuits in animal models and also in characterizing the fundamental computations involved in human memory formation.

There are 3 main processes involved in human memory:

«It was really a tough time, the most difficult recession in human memory,» JLR CEO Ralf Speth told Automotive News in March.

The novelist embodied in his own voice the encyclopedic, hysteric and paranoid world of his protagonists and this was punctuated by inspiring interludes of discussion with Eyal in which they both articulated the converging and diverging ways in which they, respectively through their practices, measure and map cracks, gaps, holes, blurred pixels and the omissions in human memory.

It will be one of the largest ice bergs ever to form in human memory.

The first is the inherent flaws in human memory — our memories are not what we think they are, and they fail us far more often than we know, particularly when we attempt to recall traumatic events like violent crimes.

Not exact matches

Implanting computing power in the brain could help humans have near - perfect memory, read books instantaneously and communicate with other implanted humans telepathically, or without speaking, explains Johnson.

«We've always known that caffeine has cognitive - enhancing effects, but its particular effects on strengthening memories and making them resistant to forgetting has never been examined in detail in humans,» Yassa, senior author of the paper, told Johns Hopkins» news network.

«Again, I'm dreaming here and it's science - fiction and I'm not saying Intel is doing this, but eventually we're going to have good enough robots with good enough artificial intelligence that we'll be able to implant all of a human's memories (in it).

In the 1950s, cognitive psychologist George Miller put forward the idea that humans can only «hold» seven things (plus or minus two) in their short - term memory (STM) at one timIn the 1950s, cognitive psychologist George Miller put forward the idea that humans can only «hold» seven things (plus or minus two) in their short - term memory (STM) at one timin their short - term memory (STM) at one time.

Scientists know how to make fruit flies and mice smarter, and efforts to come up with a treatment for Alzheimer's and other neurological disorders are leading to drugs that enhance memory and cognition in humans.

in some ways memory is a better key to the nature of experience than perception, not only because, by the time we have used a datum of perception, it will already have been taken over by memory, but for the additional reasons: (a,) in memory there is less mystery concerning what we are trying to know than there is in perception [i.e., «our own past human experiences»]; also (all) the temporal structure of memory is more obvious.

Faith as underlying rationality: In this view, all human knowledge and reason is seen as dependent on faith: faith in our senses, faith in our reason, faith in our memories, and faith in the accounts of events we receive from otherIn this view, all human knowledge and reason is seen as dependent on faith: faith in our senses, faith in our reason, faith in our memories, and faith in the accounts of events we receive from otherin our senses, faith in our reason, faith in our memories, and faith in the accounts of events we receive from otherin our reason, faith in our memories, and faith in the accounts of events we receive from otherin our memories, and faith in the accounts of events we receive from otherin the accounts of events we receive from others.

But it is not enough to win the war, if that means keeping alive the memory of God, nature, and the human person in an increasingly inhuman and antihuman age.

When unable to find the necessary concepts in the human records or in human expressions, I have next resorted to the memory resources of my own order of earth creatures, the midwayers.

Primary oral cultures rely on the living human memory to store knowledge in formulary expressions.

Finally, as Blake envisioned, it is the human body of Christ who negated the God who is present in the memory of the past, and only when the Christian has wholly been delivered from remembrance and recollection will he be open to the Word that is fully incarnate in the present.

Then God decided to give us a 2nd chance to love and follow Him (truth) or love and follow satan (lies) by erasing our memories of Him and allowing our souls to be born unto woman and come to earth as humans in the flesh to love and follow Him or love and follow satan.

An interesting perspective... because we can still wonder whether the entire universe is controlled by an alien being who might at any moment do something for which there has been no precedent in all of human memory... we could still see beyond that practically all - powerful being a being that we could rightfully know to be God even to that other being to whom we are at their mercy.

Wiesel, for whom memory seems to be the closest thing to the image of God in human beings, and who views memory as the central transmitter of ethical and moral insights, depicts the tragedy of Elhanan's increasing disability with enormous understanding and sympathy.

As Tutu encouraged people to tell their stories and ask their questions in Facing the Truth, a phrase or gesture would trigger in me a memory of another story of deep human loss in Ireland, and then another.

All this has been taken into God; all this is immediately known to God; all this is treasured in the divine memory; all this qualifies whatever we are prepared now to say about God and about the divine relationship with the world and more especially about that relationship as it has to do with human existence.

But Old Testament writers had a very different and a much more profound understanding of memory in God, as indeed also of memory among us humans.

Further, we have argued that the notion of divine memory enables us to say something helpful in our attempt to see how that which takes place in the world, and not least in human existence as we know it, can have an abiding value in God.

And once human will is accorded primacy in reaching that perfection — once obtension is sufficient to realize the First Good — the responsible self requires no memory at all beyond its recognition of the imperative to seek the content of correct conduct (the Second Good).

When the self is committed to the Second Good, its stock of memory, intelligence, relationships, health, and wealth becomes the instrument for the concrete achievement of security, justice, liberty, or fraternity within the domain of personal relations and in the larger world of human institutions.

This eschatological consummation will be the death of the transcendent God, his self - negation by a total incarnation of actualization «throughout the total range of human experience, «18 his «kenotic passion» fulfilled in a «new and liberated humanity «19 — a humanity liberated from even the memory of God to become its own Divine Self.20

It is therefore possible and even probable that they experience sensations and memory, that is to say, conscious phenomena, but surely not in the sense of human experience which is connected with a concept of one's own self.

Aristotle considered (prime) matter to be unintelligible andnon - being» Fourth, developments in genetic engineering will pose a challenge both ethically and metaphysically in the way man deals with attempts to manipulate life (and change it) via cloning, hybrids, and the integration of human (organic) and machine technology (via nano - technology); issues of conscience, soul, purpose, intelligence, memory and morality will require the Church to articulate competently its understanding of the human person in order to provide an ethical voice.

I do not believe it is merely by chance that all cultures assume the existence of something that might be called the «Memory of Being,» in which everything is constantly recorded, and that they assume the related existence of supra - personal authorities or principles that not only transcend man but to which he constantly relates, and which are the sole, final explanation of a phenomenon as particular as human responsibility.

Last century this set many scholars busy searching the New Testament for the reliable human memories of Jesus it preserved, in order to reconstruct the historical picture of Jesus.

Our sometimes tranquil circumstances can easily cause us to repress the memory of the millions of people both today and in the past who have been displaced, slaughtered and eventually forgotten throughout human history's painful transitions.

Traditions of every kind, hoarded and manifested in gesture and language, in schools, libraries, museums, bodies of law and religion, philosophy and science — everything that accumulates, arranges itself, recurs and adds to itself, becoming the collective memory of the human race — all this we may see as no more than an outer garment, an epiphenomenon precariously superimposed upon all the other edifices of Nature (the only truly organic ones, as it may appear): but it is precisely this optical illusion which we have to overcome if our realism is to reach to the heart of the matter.

For if this possibility is excluded on a priori grounds, the experience must be interpreted another way: as an unwarranted enthusiasm, as the presence of human love in community, as the activity of God mediated through the community's memory of Jesus, or what have you.

Of course, memory plays an important part in human life, but it has existential significance only when I make my own particular past present through recollection.

But this takes place not by his reproducing the events of the past in memory, but by his encountering in those events of the past (as his own history) human existence and its interpretation.

The interpretation of resurrection as merely the persistence of human or divine memories in «minds made better by their presence» can hardly persist beyond the crumbling of the rememberers.

The new self of each moment partly includes the old experiences through memory, although Hartshorne does not exclude as inappropriate some talk of an old self with new experiences, provided it is clearly understood that the old self is contained within the new experiences and not the converse.4 Furthermore, he reasons that, if human experiences were the properties of an identical ego instead of the ego's being the property of the experiences, then to know an individual ego would mean to know all its future; and, therefore, we could not really know the individual in question until his death.5

Thus one who denies a priori that there was objective ground for the resurrection faith of early Christianity denies in effect the whole Gospel portrait of Jesus, for the knowledge of the living Christ after the crucifixion is altogether continuous, of a piece, with the memory of the human Jesus.

«In the names of reason, science and liberty they had proved, rather effectively, that good societies need God to survive and that when you have murdered Him, starved Him, silenced Him, denied Him to the children and erased His festivals and His memory, you have a gap which can not indefinitely be filled by any human, nor anything made by human hands.»

On the religious side he sees the need for the belief that the values achieved in the world are not simply lost as they fade from human memory.

I realize now that because I am a human in a fallen world, my being and my memory are flawed.

Several themes stand out in Mayernik's accounts of these cities: the persistence of a humanist sensibility grounded in sacred order (including what can only be regarded as a sacramental sense of the relationships among the human body, the city, and the cosmos); the role of memory in the life of traditional cities; the relationship between memory and artistic action; and the city as the physical embodiment of shared aspirations rather than «reality.»

Memory is an essential element in human existence in history.

We have noted, in Matter and Memory, the importance of Bergson's idea that longer durations (of human awareness) can extend over far briefer physical durations.

The rhythms of human consciousness are given an elaborate analysis in Matter and Memory.