Sentences with phrase «human memory works»

Many people believe that human memory works like a video recording of our experience, but according to experts, memories are actually quite fragile and susceptible to contamination.

It's almost a good thing that we've never been entirely able to figure out how human memory works, because if we did, we'd probably just forget.

from Scientific American Memory Experiments from Eric H. Chudler's Neuroscience for Kids Memory and Learning from Bruno Dubuc, McGill University Mapping Memory in 3 - D from National Geographic How Human Memory Works from HowStuffWorks.com Working Memory from Thinker: A Cognitive Psychology Resource

Understanding how this information is encoded could be key to understanding how human memory works as well as memory disorders.

Many people believe that human memory works like a video recorder: the mind records events and then, on cue, plays back an exact replica of them.

Not exact matches

«In other words the human brain compensates for receiving increased information from a mobile phone conversation by not sending some visual information to the working memory, leading to a tendency to «look at» but not «see» objects by distracted drivers.

A small group of human studies have been done on a drug called propranolol, which blocks the action of stress neurotransmitters that help cement memories in the brain, but LeDoux's work shows the potential for greater precision.

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.

Thanks to experiments on animals and the advent of human brain imaging, scientists now have a working knowledge of the various kinds of memory as well as which parts of the brain are involved in each.

«If the effects of alcohol on memories to fearful responses are similar in humans to what we observe in mice, then it seems that our work helps us better understand how traumatic memories form and how to target better therapies for people in therapy for PTSD.

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.

And a memory process that's very common in humans, this chunking, is a strategy that works for other species.»

The AAAS - Andrew M. Sessler Fund for Science, Education, and Human Rights supports the work of the AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program and was created to honor the memory of Dr. Andrew M. Sessler.

«More broadly, our work supports the view that rats may be used to model fundamental aspects of human memory.»

If it works in humans, the compound could help reverse memory decline in patients, even a month later

The idea builds on the work of renowned neuroscientist Endel Tulving, who pioneered the study of human episodic memory — the recall of our autobiographical past.

He added that the existence of episodic memory in lower animals has implications for research on human diseases that affect memory, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases, since the majority of research on the brain — and the drugs used to treat memory diseases and dementia — start out based on insights into how the brain works in rats.

The work «provides a very nice demonstration that BDNF plays a role in some forms of human memory,» says neurobiologist Susan Patterson of Columbia University in New York City.

«If dexamethasone works well in humans, we could potentially use it to prevent fearful memories in soldiers on the battlefield, patients in emergency rooms, or anywhere else where healthcare providers provide treatment within hours of traumatic events.»

After working to hone their technique for more than a decade, the researchers report that a small region of the human brain involved in memory makes new neurons throughout our lives — a continuous process of self - renewal that may aid learning.

Steve: It is an excellent point; I mean, John, you quote Eric Kandel in your article and Eric Kandel won the Nobel prize for his groundbreaking research into memory and that work was done with a sea slug and basically they have teased out the most basic workings of memory in an invertebrate and these other folks like Kurzweil think that within his lifetime, you're going to be able to understand all the workings of the human brain to the point where you can basically replicate it.

We've worked hard to see how we could bridge the gap between the idea that the hippocampus is a purely spatial memory in the rat to its broader function as an episodic memory system in humans, which is the memory you have for something you did at a particular time and place.

By working our the details of spatial navigation in primate memory brain regions, our work will lay the foundation for understanding how these mechanisms underlie the formation of complex memories, not only in monkeys, but in humans as well.

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

These knockouts may be important models for human brain diseases that affect working memory including Alzheimer's Disease, schizophrenia, autism, and ADHD.

Makuuchi, M., Bahlmann, J., Anwander, A. & Friederici, A. D. Segregating the core computational faculty of human language from working memory.

The human body is incredibly efficient — it wants to do the least amount of work possible to perform a given task, so it builds new muscle fibers, creates neural pathways and develops muscle memory to perform the same job more efficiently over time.

But, then you have to accept that all mutants age much more slowly than regular humans (okay, that could work) and that their memories are also a bit shoddy (like when Xavier says in X-Men that he and Magneto built Cerebro and in First Class it's stated that Henry McCoy (aka Beast) built it and, if you factor in the actual storyline from the comics, it gets even more confusing).

We must work within the constraints of human cognitive architecture, or human memory, because otherwise, we are not helping them learn.

In physics, the «observer» is independent entity that works in every human being on the same principles: it allows him to be aware of their thinking processes, self - performances, memories, in short, to be aware of the functioning of the human mind.

The average human can only hold a certain amount of information in its working memory at a given time.

Even if it did not, the notion of learning and immediately demonstrating ability flies in the face of well - established research on human's limited working memory capacity.

With that as a backdrop, we decided to tell the story through the eyes of multiple characters working on a government project to replicate the human mind, using a memory machine built on an ethically questionable design.

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.

«Bits of Elsewhere» is Manalo's third exhibition with Addison Ripley, and the new work follows her ongoing pursuit of capturing memory and the tenuous, ethereal uncertainty of human nature.

His poetically charged works, often approaching a kind of sensual or perceptual riddles or revelations, involves issues regarding the most fundamental existence and meaning of images in human culture — images and memory, images and identity, images and absence or death.

The featured works are Cleaning the Mirror (1995), where one person carefully scrubs a human skeleton in a confrontation with mortality, Freeing Series (1975), where the voice, memory, and body are liberated, and Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful (1975), where the same phrase and action are repeated obsessively, like an incantation.

By merging photographic and sculptural elements, his work metaphorically speaks to the human condition of seclusion, oppression, memory, and loss.

Freeze, Memory will present three different bodies of Charrière's work together for the first time, each exploring how human civilization and the natural landscape are inextricably linked.

TimeFrames, a body of work reflecting the geometry of memory and the reflection of the human condition, will show at Fathom Gallery in the heart of Logan Circle.

From recent location - specific series such as The Hotan Project (2012 - 13) made in the Xinjiang province of China, his first London series titled Half Street (2013), as well as recent trips to make work in the UAE and Greenland, Liu has also created an automated painting machine entitled Weight of Insomnia (2016), which translates a digital video feed of traffic streams and human movement in real time into a new body of paintings tracing time, memory and behaviour.

Working primarily with sculpture and large sculptural installations, Nika Neelova's work seem to inhabit a post-human world in which human needs and definitions have long since been forgotten, remaining only as a vestigial memory in the forms of the sculptural subjects.

The work isn't on display at Tate Britain because it was demolished only a few months after its creation, but the ghost of «House» lives on, and the fusion of domestic objects and architecture with the power of human memory and experience, is at the core of every artwork produced by Whiteread in the subsequent 3 decades.

The exhibition forefronts the challenges of historicizing elusive artworks by presenting works that take photographic and video documentation and human memory as points of departure, reactivating, rearticulating and witnessing the interventions and works through the lens of the contemporary moment.

Molanders work put emphasis on new relationships between architecture, social environment, living memory and the humans within it.

The works featured not only encompass time, memories and human sensation but also access a certainty of selfhood in the particularly gendered territory of the home.

Her work, which she describes as «panoramic sound quilting,» continues the artist's exploration of what it means to be a U.S. citizen and examines the human experience through constructs of memory, myth, make - believe and value.

Looking at histories of colonialism, Meessen De Clercq (Brussels, Focus) will present a solo stand of works by Thu Van Tran examining rubber as a symbol of suppression by the French in Vietnam; and Chi - Wen Gallery (Taipei, main) will showcase Chien - Chi Chang's The War That Never Was and Yin - Ju Chen's Extrastellar Evaluations (both 2016), new video works looking at memory and histories of human destruction.

During the next three decades, he established himself as one of the most important Chinese contemporary painters, whose figurative works delve into the human psyche, exploring personal and collective memory in the wake of the Cultural Revolution.

Darren Almond's work examines recurring themes of time, memory, human labor and exploitation.