Memory

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Working smarter, not harder.

The ability to chunk, or to strategically organize, information is one of the most powerful ways people have to encode experience into memory. A functional brain imaging study by Bor and colleagues, in this issue of Neuron, provides evidence that ...
John D E Gabrieli, Alison R Preston (Neuron, 200301)
working-smarter-not-harder.asp

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"Blaming the victim" under memory load.

When presented with negative outcomes, people often engage in counterfactual thinking imagining various ways that events might have been different. This appears to be a spontaneous behavior, with considerable adaptive value. Nevertheless, counterfactual ...
Stephen D Goldinger, Heather M Kleider, Tamiko Azuma, Denise R Beike (Psychol Sci, 200301)
blaming-victim-under-memory-load.asp

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States of awareness across multiple memory tasks: obtaining a "pure" measure of conscious recollection.

Four experiments were conducted to examine the nature of recollective experience across different explicit memory tests. Experiments 1 and 2 showed that the proportion of retrieved items that were given Remember responses were equivalent across free ...
Maryellen Hamilton, Suparna Rajaram (Acta Psychol (Amst), 200301)
states-awareness-across-multiple-memory-tasks-obtaining-pure-measure.asp

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Functional connectivity in the resting brain: a network analysis of the default mode hypothesis.

Functional imaging studies have shown that certain brain regions, including posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) and ventral anterior cingulate cortex (vACC), consistently show greater activity during resting states than during cognitive tasks. This finding ...
Michael D Greicius, Ben Krasnow, Allan L Reiss, Vinod Menon (Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 200301)
functional-connectivity-resting-brain-network-analysis-default-mode.asp

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Large capacity storage of integrated objects before change blindness.

Normal people have a strikingly low ability to detect changes in a visual scene. This has been taken as evidence that the brain represents only a few objects at a time, namely those currently in the focus of attention. In the present study, subjects were ...
Rogier Landman, Henk Spekreijse, Victor A F Lamme (Vision Res, 200301)
large-capacity-storage-integrated-objects-change-blindness.asp

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Electrophysiology of the frontal lobe.

The electrophysiology of the frontal lobe appears to be unimpressive when the view is limited to the routine EEG recording of a healthy waking adult. There is usually low voltage fast activity, which becomes more pronounced when recorded with depth ...
E Niedermeyer (Clin Electroencephalogr, 200301)
electrophysiology-frontal-lobe.asp

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Impairment in activation of a frontal attention-switch mechanism in schizophrenic patients.

The present study addresses the difference in activities of frontal and temporal mismatch negativity (MMN) generators between healthy controls and schizophrenic patients. Auditory MMNs were measured from 13 medicated schizophrenic patients in a ...
Yasuharu Sato, Hirooki Yabe, Juanita Todd, Patricia Michie, Naoko Shinozaki, Takeyuki Sutoh, Tomiharu Hiruma, Tadayoshi Nashida, Takashi Matsuoka, Sunao Kaneko (Biol Psychol, 200301)
impairment-activation-frontal-attention-switch-mechanism.asp

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Self-esteem and memory.

This article describes two potential bases for memory bias associated with global self-esteem. According to the mood-congruence model, activation of either dimension of self-esteem (self-competence or self-liking) produces an affective state that ...
Romin W Tafarodi, Tara C Marshall, Alan B Milne (J Pers Soc Psychol, 200301)
self-esteem-memory.asp

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Portrait of the self-enhancer: well adjusted and well liked or maladjusted and friendless?

Research has variously portrayed self-enhancement as an indicator of narcissistic defensiveness or as a concomitant of mental health. To address this controversy, the present study used multiple measures of self-enhancement along with multiple measures ...
Shelley E Taylor, Jennifer S Lerner, David K Sherman, Rebecca M Sage, Nina K McDowell (J Pers Soc Psychol, 200301)
portrait-self-enhancer-well-adjusted-well-liked-or-maladjusted.asp

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Longitudinal changes in verbal memory in older adults: distinguishing the effects of age from repeat testing.

OBJECTIVE: To characterize the relationship between age-related memory change and repeat testing using serial administrations of the California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT) in 385 nondemented Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging participants aged 55 and ...
Melissa Lamar, Susan M Resnick, Alan B Zonderman (Neurology, 200301)
longitudinal-changes-verbal-memory-older-adults-distinguishing.asp