Sentences with phrase «term memory of events»

Short - term memory of events is stored in an area of the brain called the hippocampus.

Previous studies have found that if synthesis of certain cellular proteins is blocked in mice immediately after an event occurs, the mice will have no long - term memory of the event.

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Some psychologists have explained the apparent prevalence of precognitive dreams in terms of memory biases, namely a selective memory for accurate predictions and distorted memory so that dreams are retrospectively fitted onto subsequent events.

Whitehead does not discuss memory in these terms as Bergson does, but his theory of prehensions of noncontiguous events illuminates memory as well.

This therapy was based on a dubious account of the operations of memory, whereby traumatic events cause instant amnesia («repression,» in a misuse of that Freudian term).

The common faith of the church — even though it is expressed in terms of belief about the person — rests always, and only, upon the common memory of the event and the common experience of the Spirit.

Psychicalism has the signal advantage, hinted at by Francis Bacon, that it can construe causal connectedness of events in terms of generalized concepts of memory and perception.

Rather, it is a unity derived from principles of community and canon; from the memory of the community of Israel; and from Israel's understanding of its past and its present (and its future) as time and event given ultimate meaning only in terms of critical divine activity for critical divine purposes.

This research team also suggests that the segmentation of the lived episodes in packages or pieces defined by «frontier events» is a first step towards the storage of these memories in long - term memory.

His team also showed that memories of an event form at the same time in the brain's short - term and long - term storage areas, rather than moving to long - term storage later on.

(In mouse experiments, short - term memory refers to recollections of events from within the past few days — what is sometimes called recent memory to distinguish it from more transient neural impressions that flicker out after only minutes or hours.

Set one year after the events of «Nemo», «Dory» begins with the very basic set - up: the short - term memory loss blue tang fish (voiced again by Ellen DeGeneres) remembering her parents for the first time in a long time, and deciding to set - out to look for them.

History is an umbrella term that relates to the past events along with the memory, collection, discovery, organisation, presentation, and interpretation of information about these events.

When people drink to the point that they don't remember things, it isn't that they don't remember those things the next day, but that the excessive alcohol consumption actually interferes with the ability of their brain to form new long - term memories (i.e. from recording, in a manner of speaking, the events in the first place).