Sentences with phrase «on human memory»

Motion of Scooter Libby to introduce an expert witness on human memory is denied.

Several studies have been conducted on human memory and on the propensity for eyewitnesses to remember events and details that did not occur.

A recent research on human memory links sleep and memory in a powerful co-relationship.

2010 Elizabeth Loftus is honored for the profound impact that her pioneering research on human memory has had on the administration of justice in the United States and abroad.

Alternatively, the Prime Minister's Office has tried to assert a statute of limitations on the human memory.

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Ever since the first caveman and cavewoman argued over where they parked their wheel, humans have known that memory isn't worth the neurons it's imprinted on.

«We've always known that caffeine has cognitive - enhancing effects, but its particular effects on strengthening memories and making them resistant to forgetting has never been examined in detail in humans,» Yassa, senior author of the paper, told Johns Hopkins» news network.

Faith as underlying rationality: In this view, all human knowledge and reason is seen as dependent on faith: faith in our senses, faith in our reason, faith in our memories, and faith in the accounts of events we receive from others.

121:8.13 The memoranda which I have collected, and from which I have prepared this narrative of the life and teachings of Jesus — aside from the memory of the record of the Apostle Andrew ---- embrace thought gems and superior concepts of Jesus» teachings assembled from more than two thousand human beings who have lived on earth from the days of Jesus down to the time of the inditing of these revelations, more correctly restatements.

At first they may be taken merely as aesthetic moments, such as communing with nature, savouring memories andimages, meeting mysteries, the heightened sensing of musical sounds, odours, colours, the thrill of acute poetic expression, or moving encounters with other human beings; but on further reflection people often cite such experiences as having a spiritual quality and as hints of the divine.

Primary oral cultures rely on the living human memory to store knowledge in formulary expressions.

I found that human has short memory... or maybe I can say they do not pass on to the next next generation very well due to circumstances maybe, or free choice?

For if this possibility is excluded on a priori grounds, the experience must be interpreted another way: as an unwarranted enthusiasm, as the presence of human love in community, as the activity of God mediated through the community's memory of Jesus, or what have you.

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.

On the religious side he sees the need for the belief that the values achieved in the world are not simply lost as they fade from human memory.

Monad's were for Leibniz just as real on the subhuman, even subanimal, levels, as on the human level; they were merely much less capable of thought and definite conscious recollections and perceptions, more limited to simple feeling and extremely short - run memory of what has just happened.

I preordered through Amazon but am too tech dense to figure out how to photo the receipt, so here is a cut & paste: Items Ordered Price 1 of: Gluten - Free on a Shoestring Bakes Bread: (Biscuits, Bagels, Buns, and More), Hunn, Nicole Condition: New Sold by: Amazon.com LLC $ 14.78 So many bread memories, no wonder bread has been used as an analogy for human love and nurturing for centuries.

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«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.

The broad spectrum of lying and the array of scientific disciplines involved in seeking to understand what drives such behaviors was explored by three experts in psychology, human memories and psychiatry during a lecture at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 10.

Preliminary studies of ampakines on healthy human subjects have shown small to moderate improvements in their performance on memory tests.

The largest effect was on the number of times the mice went in and out of a sleep phase called paradoxical sleep, which resembles REM (rapid eye movement) sleep in humans, when dreams occur and memories are strengthened.

But dosing the gastropods on methamphetamine is helping us understand how certain «pathological memories» form in human addicts.

«The mistiming prevents older people from being able to effectively hit the save button on new memories, leading to overnight forgetting rather than remembering,» said study senior author Matthew Walker, a UC Berkeley professor of neuroscience and psychology and director of the campus's Center for Human Sleep Science.

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.

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.

ELECTRICAL shocks that simulate the patterns seen in the brain when you are learning have enhanced human memory for the first time, boosting performance on tests by up to 30 per cent.

Nor can such machines equal the human brain's capacity to learn from experience and make predictions based on memory.

Because most animal species have integrins, Kandel thinks that experiments on fruit fly memory could lead to insights into human memory.

Elizabeth Loftus of the University of California, Irvine, a current member of the AAAS Board of Directors and a psychologist specializing in human memory, has received the 2016 John Maddox Prize, recognizing «sound science and evidence on a matter of public interest, facing difficulty or hostility in doing so.»

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.

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.

Humans who received the drug performed better on tests assessing memory, attention, alertness, reaction time, and problem solving.

«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.

Mice have proven to be a particularly good model for studies relevant to humans, Magnusson said, on such topics as aging, spatial memory, obesity and other issues.

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.

Through my artistic research and practice I am investigating light and shadow as stimuli to human emotions and memories as well as the optic science on colored shadow.

From Proust's madeleine - sparked reminiscences on his youth to a bridge player trying to count out her opponents» hands, we're all familiar with human memory.

As in the first study, a group of young mice carrying the human gene APOE4 showed cognitive impairment on the behavioral level — in other words, they showed signs of damage on the level of spatial memory.

Before toying with worms, the S.U.N.Y. Buffalo team tried out their technique on cultures of human embryonic kidney cells and neurons from a rat hippocampus, a part of the brain integral to memory.

The researchers say their findings are an early step on a quest to untangle the mechanisms of human memory formation — a fundamental neurologic process that remains poorly understood.

He studies human memory with a particular interest in the nature and spread of misinformation and runs a blog for the Psychonomic Society on human cognition.

«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.»

He argues that human survival may have depended not so much on our ability to produce new neurons, but on our ability to keep old ones in order to accumulate memories over the entire lifespan.

Mice with human astrocytes performed better on memory experiments than those that had received mouse cell grafts, the team reports today in Cell Stem Cell.

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

The few studies involving direct electrical stimulation of the hippocampus in humans have generally shown a disruptive effect on memory.

Only humans have false memories; animals do not unless, like the mice at MIT, false memories are forced on them, he said.

In their new paper in Journal of Immunology, Mandy Ford, Craig Coopersmith and colleagues show that 2B4 levels are increased on certain types of T cells (CD4 + memory cells) in human sepsis patients and in a mouse model of sepsis called CLP (cecal ligation + puncture).