Sentences with phrase «social memory»

Moreover, the team discovered that the modified mice had a significantly reduced capacity for social memory compared with the controls.

Selected works offer new ways of looking at and understanding cinema, an institution that has become a fundamental part of our collective social memory during the last century.

But this has long - term implications for mental health because these social interactions yield the release of hormones that change the brain, which, in turn, forms social memories.

We believe that games as a medium have a great potential to affect human experience and create amazing social memories between people.

So instead, we have to rely on science, not social memory for fill in what we have forgotten.

This tactic of visual appropriation seeks to remind the audience of their role within a collective social memory.

That's because the hormone actually strengthens social memory in one specific region of the brain, Northwestern scientists discovered.

Effects of neonatal handling on social memory, social interaction, and number of oxytocin and vasopressin neurons in rats.

Oxytocin results in improved recall for positive social memories, happy faces in particular.

We also represent Matthew Buckingham who is primarily a filmmaker, but also uses photography, sculpture, and drawing to question the role social memory plays in contemporary life.

With a brain about the size of the period at the end of this sentence, it's impressive that wasps have such robust social memories, Sheehan says.

The scientists discovered that oxytocin strengthens negative social memory and future anxiety by triggering an important signaling molecule — ERK (extracellular signal regulated kinases)-- that becomes activated for six hours after a negative social experience.

«The mice looked quite normal until we looked at social memory,» said first author Frederick L. Hitti, an MD - PhD student in Dr. Siegelbaum's laboratory, who developed the transgenic mouse.

«Brain region essential for social memory identified.»

Scientists have observed that lesions limited to the hippocampus also impair social memory in both rodents and humans.

Oral administration of the Yerba mate extract improved short term social memory in a specific manner.

Matthew Buckingham's photographs, films, and videos explore social memory and historical representation.

Panel: «Who Owns Digital Social Memory?»

«The images she combines with these and other sentences have been fished out of the pool of visual social memory, and for her words and statements she also normally draws on what is already there.

That the continuance of social memory and the ability of man to better himself based on the work of others who came before are simply meaningless constructs?

Celebrated for his experimental approach, which blurs the line between installation and photography, Attie has spent his career moving from one city to the next to explore the trauma and history of the marginalized and to reflect on social memory and the construction of identity.

(Presumably, oxytocin also intensifies positive social memories and, thereby, increases feelings of well being, but that research is ongoing.)

In another experiment, the researchers tested whether the animals» inability to form social memories might have to do with deficits in olfaction (sense of smell), which is crucial for normal social interaction.

In humans, the importance of the hippocampus for social memory was famously illustrated by the case of Henry Molaison, who had much of his hippocampus removed by surgeons in 1953 in an attempt to cure severe epilepsy.

The face - recognition studies are of particular interest because a number of animal studies have convincingly linked oxytocin to the formation of social memory.

Scientists at Columbia University's Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), and the Université Paris Descartes have found that deficits in social memory — a crucial yet poorly understood feature of psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia — may be due to a decrease in the number of a particular class of brain cells, called inhibitory neurons, in a little - explored region within the brain's memory center.

«This is in contrast to a handful of previous smaller studies which have shown some positive effects on repetitive behaviours, social memory and emotion processing.

In our experiment, however, mice with an inactivated CA2 region showed no preference for a novel mouse versus a previously encountered mouse, indicating a lack of social memory.»

A few studies have suggested that CA2 might be involved in social memory, as this region has a high level of expression of a receptor for vasopressin, a hormone linked to sexual motivation, bonding, and other social behaviors.

Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have determined that a small region of the hippocampus known as CA2 is essential for social memory, the ability of an animal to recognize another of the same species.

Hepler observes that the vasopressin receptor 1b gene is also turned on predominantly in the CA2 region, and seems to be involved in aggression and social memory.

Symposium: «Monuments, Monumentality, Monumentalization» at Dia Art Foundation On Saturday, Dia Art Foundation will host a symposium as the fourth installment of the «Monuments, Monumentality, Monumentalization,» which synthesizes the concept of the monument as «key to understanding public space, artistic agency, and social memory,» as a press release states.

Possible Damage investigates the construction of social memory and its consequent realities.

A 2000 graduate of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, Geyer works with photography, video and performance, using both fiction and documentary strategies in order to address larger concepts such as national identity, gender, and class in the context of the ongoing re-adjustment of cultural meanings and social memories.

Oxytocin is a hormone that promotes bonding during the early stages of relationship development, positive feelings toward relationship partners1, including feelings of trust.2 In fact, oxytocin has been implicated in a variety of positive relationship behaviors, including attachment, social memory, sexual behavior, and orgasm, as well as maternal caring and bonding behaviors.3 As a result, the media often refers to oxytocin as the «cuddle hormone.»

Oxytocin did have an effect on the men's recollection of these social memories, Bartz and her colleagues reported online in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in November 2010.

Behavioral studies in humans relying on the intranasal administration of the peptides demonstrate the influence of OXT and AVP on social interactions, e.g., attachment, interpersonal trust, and cooperative behavior, as well as emotion recognition, visual attention and social memory, indicating that OXT and AVP contribute to the processing of social cues.

, e.g., attachment, interpersonal trust, and cooperative behavior, as well as emotion recognition, visual attention and social memory, indicating that OXT and AVP contribute to the processing of social cues.