«It converges well with human data showing you can plant
emotional memories into people's minds,» she said.
Just as adrenaline sears
emotional memories into the brain with the help of the amygdala, drugs of abuse enlist the amygdala and the brain's reward centers to forge unforgettable memories of pleasure.
Not exact matches
Of course, this is really psychologist shorthand for the lengthy process of going
into one's
emotional memory files and teasing out the situations where you might be over-interpreting — not misinterpreting, mind you — your dear nemesis's behaviour.
Yeah, they could proceed with an abortion, that leaves horrible
memories and
emotional scars or they could bring a person
into the world who will be, in some cases, «unwanted».
«We already knew that newly acquired information is stored
into different types of
memories, spatial or
emotional, before being consolidated or integrated,» says Sylvain Williams, a researcher and professor of psychiatry at McGill.
Emotional memories are evolutionarily vital because they help avoid repeats of dangerous situations — «you want to remember where that tiger was,» he says — but if the
memory of a traumatic event is too strong, it can begin to intrude
into everyday life and cause problems such as post-traumatic stress disorder.
Describing the brain as a big circuit board in which each new experience creates a new circuit, Hopkins neuroscience professor Richard Huganir, Ph.D. says that he and his team found that during
emotional peaks, the hormone norepinephrine dramatically sensitizes synapses - the site where nerve cells make an electro - chemical connection - to enhance the sculpting of a
memory into the big board.
However, if people get stuck
into paying attention to negative stories and negative
emotional memories, the level of serotonin is reduced.
And the more you do it, the more you will turn transient states
into longstanding
emotional memories that foster the deep - seated satisfaction and contentment we all yearn for.
Visually stunning, well acted, but altogether too silly and far - fetched to really resonate, the film lacks the
emotional heft, enormous sense of personal loss or sense of time from Reiner's film, and for a film so preoccupied with its central character's inability to forget or escape the past, it fades
into memory all too quickly.
I don't consider myself a particularly
emotional person, and nothing about the specific nature of the candid contributions from Polley and her family that comprise this personal investigation
into identity,
memory and truth resonated with me as such.
Weaving learning
into a story makes learning more interesting, activates the brain's positive
emotional state, and hooks the information
into a strong
memory template.
As stories from childhood are linked to positive
emotional experiences, they provide an insight
into the patterning system by which
memories are stored.
By creating a safe place to share
memories, not only will you enjoy other's perspectives, you'll also create a stronger
emotional sense of connectedness and personal investment — and that can turn book browsers
into book buyers.
Her charged work, a distinctive mix of abstraction and figuration, delves
into childhood
memories and the
emotional struggles of everyday life.
Emin is well known for her frank, confessional style and for transforming her inner
emotional and psychological world — personal experiences,
memories and feelings —
into art that is both intimate yet profoundly universal.
Aided by consultants including composer and pianist Jason Moran, the participatory installation transforms «sonic and visual
memories and histories of the city
into a metaphorical, virtual bayou, an ever - evolving kaleidoscope of impressions that interact with visitor movements in space, producing a vibrant
emotional experience that stimulates
memory and imagination.»
The cultivation of a personal interior space or Inside allows room for psychic and
emotional development, a place to organize
memories, emotions and wishes
into coherent forms: paintings, drawings and sculptures.
Her initial representational painting would be done from life, out in the open air, then she would take the canvas home to her studio and work over it so that it took on an
emotional resonance — something she described as: «that
memory or dream thing I do that for me comes nearer reality than my objective kind of work».6 She painted on canvas with a very fine weave and coated it with a special primer to make the surface extremely smooth, blending one colour
into the next, making sure that the brushstrokes were invisible.
A self - described «
emotional science project,» Bernadette Mayer's
Memory — 1,100 - odd photographs made by shooting a thirty - six - exposure roll of 35 - mm color slide film on each of the thirty - one days of July 1971, accompanied by six - plus hours of diaristic narration that the artist later revised
into a book — is one of those conceptual pieces from the 1960s and»70s that have been better known as anecdote than as physical fact.
This plays
into how architecture and its decorative components can be
emotional in themselves as well as catalysts for eliciting buried
memories that are either forgotten, painful, pleasant or nostalgic.
As an artist - in - residence at the LeDoux Laboratory at the Center for Neural Science at New York University since 2005, Nene Humphrey's interdisciplinary practice probes
into the formation and storage of
memories associated with
emotional events such as death and grief.
Another
emotional test is to dip
into your
memories.
Michele has training in OEI (Observed Experiential Integration), which is a method that integrates traumatic
memories into our regular
memory, so they no longer trigger intense
emotional responses.
moment — that special time when every
memory, every experience, and every
emotional outbreak all fall
into place.