Sentences with phrase «about human memory»

Surely teachers would already know anything I could tell them about human memory, or attention, or motivation that would be relevant to teaching.

Kidnapped, drugged, and left abandoned in a field, bees can still find their way home using mental maps of their surroundings, according to a new study that could pose a major challenge to current thinking about human memory and cognition.

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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.

It's a neat way to think about it, and also points to a collective - personality with a memory and an interaction that takes place between individuals, almost a meta - observation on what it means to be human, if you will.

It's in these moments of bliss — brought about by a culinary experience and having memories triggered by familiar tastes and aromas — that I am reminded that we, as human beings, will always have memories tied to foods that we eat, and that food will always be a large part of us.

«It's about them diminishing the respect for their country on the world scene, surrendering its status as the protector of human rights, disgracing the memory of its veterans who gave so much,» Paladino said.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio had a bout of memory loss Saturday during his first public comments about the damaging pay - to - play testimony of one of his biggest donors, Jona Rechnitz, though he did call Rechnitz a «liar» and a «horrible human being.»

Asked about the implications of her research for humans, Josselyn said it does offer a «proof principle» for the very specialized, emotionally salient form of memories she has been studying.

Scientists have long experimented with organs - on - chips: tiny representations of human organs, such as lungs, hearts and intestines, made from cells embedded on plastic about the size of a computer memory stick.

Memory training is not just for the sake of performing a geeky party trick; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

We also know that in humans, this area functions in higher cognition that entails working memory, making plans, bringing plans to fruition, worrying, thinking about the future and imagining scenarios.

These memory problems and signs of brain trouble were gone by 120 days, which translates to about a decade in human time, Korte says.

The researchers, who published their work online November 5 in Nature, are now investigating just how long the improvement might last and how deep sleep affects memory — for some reason, humans begin to lose the ability to sleep deeply around 40 years of age, at about the same time that memory begins to decline.

«Well, the way I think about chunking is it's any shortcutting strategy or mnemonic device that would allow an animal, be it human or otherwise, to increase their memory capacity and improve recall.»

However, little is known in humans about the biology of CD4 - CTL generation, their functional properties, and heterogeneity, especially in relation to other well - described CD4 + memory T cell subsets.

«This paper provides novel evidence for memory impairment in large animals that have brains similar to humans,» says Paul Buckmaster, a neurobiologist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, whom Cook consulted about how to do memory tests.

Because the poisoned sea lions also have seizures, neuroscientists can learn more about epilepsy and memory loss in humans by studying these marine mammals, he says.

Non-polar glacial ice holds a wealth of information about past changes in climate, the environment and especially atmospheric composition, such as variations in temperature, atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and emissions of natural aerosols or human - made pollutants... The glaciers therefore hold the memory of former climates and help to predict future environmental changes.

In humans, scientists know a lot about the cells involved in immediate antibody production, called plasmablasts, but less about the separate group of cells responsible for the «storage / research for the future» functions, called memory B cells.

Philosophers have a lot to say about the human experiences you're interested in — emotions, memories, mental life.

These findings about lymph node imprinting apply to humans as well: An inadequate supply of vitamin A after birth or meddling with the baby's developing microflora through administration of antibiotics can interfere with the lymph nodes» long - term memory.

For reasons that remain unclear, humans begin to lose the ability to sleep deeply around 40 years of age, at about the same time that memory begins to decline, he notes.

«I think about chunking as any shortcutting strategy or mnemonic device that would allow an animal, be it human or otherwise, to increase its memory capacity and improve recall,» Delgado said.

Neuroscientists studying rodents and humans have found that sleep deprivation interrupts the storage of episodic memories: information about who, what, when, and where.

If you were a human observer for the past 20 years, on the other hand, you might wonder about our short memory.

Health improvement (allowing to post - pone / escape the diseases and thus live, healthier / disease - free longer, but not above human MLSP of around 122 years; thus these therapies do not affect epigenetic aging whatsoever, they are degenerative aging problems not regular healthy aging problem (except OncoSENS - only when you Already Have Cancer - which cancer increases epigenetic aging, but cancer removal thus does not change anything / makes no difference about what happens in the other cells / about what happens in the normal epigenetic «aging» course in Normal non-cancerous healthy cells) Although there is not such thing as «healthy aging» all aging in «unhealthy» (as seen from elders who are «healthy enough» who show much damage), it's just «tolerable / liveable» enough (in terms of damage accumulating) that it does not affect their quality of life (enough yet), that is «healthy aging»: ApoptoSENS - Clearing Senescent Cells (this will have great impact to reduce diseases, the largest one, since it's all inflammation fueled by the inflammation secretory phenotype (SASP) of these senescent cells) AmyloSENS - Dissolving the Plaques (this will allow humans to evade Alzheimer's, Parkinsons and general brain degenerescence, allowing quite a boost; making people much more easily reach the big 100 - since the brain is causal to how long we live; keeping brain amyloid - free and keeping our memories / neuron sharp / means longer LongTerm Potentiation - means longer brain function means longer heavy brain mass (gray matter / white matter retention seen in «sharp - witted» Centenarians who show are younger brain for their age), and both are correlated to MLSP).

However, many open questions remain about the effect of dopamine on long - term memory in healthy humans and when these effects emerge.

At Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, Florida, scientists are working to find clues about how the human brain processes memories.

«We've learned a lot about the brain from mice, but I think we can all agree that mice and humans are very different,» says Li - Huei Tsai, a neuroscientist at the Picower Institute for Memory and Learning at MIT who studies the neurobiology of Alzheimer's disease.

Memory & Cognitive Disorder Awards encourage research aimed at translating laboratory discoveries about the brain and nervous system into diagnoses and therapies to improve human health.

Germany, still wrestling with dark memories of Nazi - era eugenics and human experimentation, is cautious about genetics and stem cell research.

Each of us experiences the world uniquely (meaning, your perception of reality is fundamentally different from everyone else's) because every human possesses a different combination of physical brain function, memories, beliefs, and attitudes about him - or herself, others, and the world.

Much remains to be learned about whether this occurs in humans, but it may be worth trying this powerful antioxidant when a disease such as Alzheimer's starts to erode memory.

Stories We Tell explores the elusive nature of truth and memory, but at its core is a deeply personal film about how our narratives shape and define us as individuals and families, all interconnecting to paint a profound, funny and poignant picture of the larger human story.

Best films about mortality, memory, human connection: «Personal Shopper» (Olivier Assayas), «Marjorie Prime,» elevated by the magnificent Lois Smith (Michael Almereyda), and most especially, «A Ghost Story» (David Lowery) 3.

«We are still exploring the themes of memories and empathy, that's still in the deeper tissue of what the movie is about and the relationship to what it means to be human,» says director Denis Villeneuve in the Facebook Live Q&A that helped launched the trailer, before feeling happy that he hadn't been shot for giving away any spoilers.

Director Justin Kurzel follows up his excellent 2015 take on Macbeth with an equally serious treatment of a story about a guy who is placed in a machine called the Animus that uses «DNA memory» to revisit his assassin ancestry in the hopes of finding a magic apple that could enslave the human race.

Aasif Mandvi hits his (very odd, in fairness) role at about twice the volume and pace of anyone else, Justin Bartha barely figures, Mia Farrow is sweet enough, but doesn't make much of an impact, and Christopher Walken is interestingly restrained, adhering to normal human punctuation for the first time in recent memory, but at the same time, hiring Walken to play an average suburban dad is about like hiring Jason Statham for a film where he doesn't punch someone in the face.

Inside Out (Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen, 2015) Pixar's family comedy about emotional intelligence was astoundingly ambitious not least because it tackles the saddest of human truths — eventually we will lose everything we love, sometimes even the memory of it.

There were a few gentle sci - fi films about memory at this year's Sundance, but Marjorie Prime is the most effective, not least because it's as much a small story about family and loss as it a grand discourse on human recollection.

Whether or not it is designed as an allegory of modern Russia, no film in recent memory has examined the growing emptiness of human relationships with such expressive force as Andrey Zvyagintsev's («Leviathan») Loveless, a heart wrenching drama about a couple on the brink of divorce whose emotional neglect of their son leads to devastating...

Along the way they explore stories, memories, and, pretentiously or enchantingly, remind us about the human in humanity.

Human memory is a series of stories people tell themselves about the past.

Performance cars are all about indulging the senses, and smell is the most powerful sense humans have for evoking memories.

Chapters 14 and 16 explore the psychology of sign language — memory for signs, «slips of the hand,» and so on — and what sign language has to tell us about the neurological workings of human language in the brain.

As with humans, the concepts of time and memory are infinitely complicated, but we can make some general guesses and observations about dogs and how they perceive time passing.

Reflecting on the sight of a pale moon against Fragile's chilling sky, Seto realizes that if he can never tell another human about that sight, never share the feelings it stirred within him with another living person, that the memory and moment will never achieve meaning and ultimately be lost.

This groundbreaking exhibition follows the artist's exploration of interlined topics, including a halting suite of works about 9/11; contemporary «history paintings» on life in America since the events of 9/11; homages to his friends, the women quilt makers of Gee's Bend, Ala.; memories of vanishing ways of life and his childhood in the the South; and evocations of human struggles for freedom.

And a thousand years from now, if someone is wondering about what we twenty - first century humans were like, searching for our cultural memories, they might turn to our sitcoms, documentaries, and reality shows for answers as records of shared experience.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,