Sentences with phrase «called episodic memory»

The idea that nonhuman animals can consciously remember things they've done or witnessed in the past, called episodic memory, is controversial — largely because it's thought that these animals aren't self - aware.

The researchers also showed that people with the methionine variant fared worse on a test that measures so - called episodic memory — the ability to remember experiences.

The more doctors probed her so - called episodic memory — the sequential recollection of personal events from the past — the more upset she became.

Cross-talk between the hemispheres may be important for remembering specific events, called episodic memory, so psychologists Stephen Christman and Ruth Propper of the University of Toledo, Ohio, reasoned that lefties and righties might differ in episodic memory skills.

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In the hippocampus and the amygdala, areas of the brain thought to be associated with episodic memory, researchers had shown that the chemical signaling agent called glutamate acts like a key in the lock of some of these protein «flood gates.»

One was to look at what emotion does with episodic memories — our ability to consciously recollect the events of our lives, what most people call «memory.»

Another paradigm, called X-Cab, is designed to yield insights into our episodic memory for places.