Sentences with phrase «for autobiographical memory»

In the early 1950's, the psychological study of a few neurosurgical patients (including the now well - known patient H.M.), all of whom exhibited a profound anterograde amnesia following bilateral damage to the medial structures of the temporal lobes, revealed the importance of the hippocampal region for autobiographical memory.

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Reviewing the pictures may be a form of brain calisthenics for enhancing the mental process known as autobiographical memory, recalling the time and place of past events.

Persons with highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM, also known as hyperthymesia)-- which was first identified in 2006 by scientists at UC Irvine's Center for the Neurobiology of Learning & Memory — have the astounding ability to remember even trivial details from their distantmemory (HSAM, also known as hyperthymesia)-- which was first identified in 2006 by scientists at UC Irvine's Center for the Neurobiology of Learning & Memory — have the astounding ability to remember even trivial details from their distantMemory — have the astounding ability to remember even trivial details from their distant past.

10 THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SELF Autobiographies are made of personal memories, the sum total of our life experiences, including the experiences of the plans we have made for the future, specific or vague.

Invited Speakers: Martin Conway — Autobiographical memory and self http://www.city.ac.uk/arts-social-sciences/academic-staff-profiles/profe... Nick Chater — Self and Other in Joint Action http://www.wbs.ac.uk/about/person/nick-chater/ Kevin O'Regan — Phenomenal experience of self http://nivea.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/ Giorgio Metta — Physical Self and Peri-personal Space http://pasa.liralab.it Yiannis Demiris — Motor Self and Development of the Mirror system http://www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk/yiannis Paul Verschure — An Architecture for Self specs.upf.edu Peter Ford Dominey — Construction of the Narrative Self over Time http://pfdominey.perso.sfr.fr/RobotDemos.htm

Their interaction covers a lot of mental territory, including recalling autobiographical memories and semantic information (the president's birthday, for example), thinking about or planning the future, imagining new events, inferring the mental states of others, reasoning about moral dilemmas, reading fiction, self - reflecting, and appraising social and emotional information.

When experiencing trauma, the hippocampus, responsible for memories and spatial mapping, and the thalamus, which integrates the experience into our autobiographical self, shut down.

For example, total vegetable consumption had the strongest positive associations with executive function, perceptual speed, global cognition, and semantic, or fact - based memory, whereas total fruit intake was more consistently associated with visuospatial skills and autobiographical memory.

A pair of animated features debut: Waltz With Bashir (2008), an autobiographical tale of memory and repression turned oral history of the Lebanon war (R), and the made - for - TV family film The Point (1971), with songs by Harry Nilsson and narration by Ringo Starr (not rated).

In these cases are autobiographical memories for events which, if they occurred, did so 30 or even 40 years ago, reliable?

When a person recalls an autobiographical memory, then, these two types of long - term memory representation are brought together and a person consciously experiences episodic memories of specific aspects of the past and conceptual knowledge that acts as a personal context for the episodic memories, locating them in a person's life and providing a personal, self - relevant, meaning for them (3.15).

Accordingly, the treatment aims to modify excessively negative appraisals, correct the autobiographical memory disturbance, and remove the problematic behavior and cognitive responses (for details, see http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/IoP/Departments/Psycholo/staff/prEhlers.shtml).

'... a highly readable and erudite account of autobiographical memory... A rich book for holiday reading.»

In contrast your right brain, which maps out feelings and emotions, is also responsible for retrieving and re-assembling your autobiographical memory.

Research suggests that an overgeneral autobiographical memory style (i.e., retrieval of general memories when instructed to retrieve a specific episodic memory) represents a vulnerability marker for depression.