Memory

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Neuroimaging studies of semantic memory: inferring "how" from "where".

For nearly two decades, functional neuroimaging studies have attempted to shed light on questions about the representation, organization, and retrieval of semantic knowledge. This review examines some of the major findings in this area. For example, ...
Sharon L Thompson-Schill (Neuropsychologia, 2003)
neuroimaging-studies-semantic-memory-inferring-where.asp

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Tennessee Williams: the uses of declarative memory in The Glass Menagerie.

Tennessee Williams called his first great work, The Glass Menagerie, his "memory play." The situation in which Williams found himself when he began writing the play is explored, as are the ways in which he used the declarative memory of his protagonist, ...
Daniel Jacobs (J Am Psychoanal Assoc, 2002WINTER)
tennessee-williams-uses-declarative-memory-glass-menagerie.asp

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Disambiguating conscious and unconscious influences: do exclusion paradigms demonstrate unconscious perception?

Does exclusion failure--responding with previously presented words despite instructions to avoid doing so--demonstrate unconscious influences? This article examines exclusion-based evidence for unconscious perception. I propose an alternative signal ...
Michael Snodgrass (Am J Psychol, 2002WINTER)
disambiguating-conscious-unconscious-influences-exclusion-paradigms.asp

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Nicotinic cholinergic modulation: galantamine as a prototype.

Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor pharmacology is becoming increasingly important in the clinical symptomatology of neurodegenerative diseases in general and of cognitive and behavioral aspects in particular. In addition, the concept of allosteric ...
Diana S Woodruff-Pak, Cynthia Lander, Hugo Geerts (CNS Drug Rev, 2002WINTER)
nicotinic-cholinergic-modulation-galantamine-prototype.asp

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Effects of depression and Parkinsons disease on cognitive functioning.

This study compared the performance of Parkinsons disease (PD) patients with and without depression, patients with depression alone, and normal control subjects on a cognitive screening instrument, the Mattis Dementia Rating Scale (DRS) to evaluate the ...
Suzanne Norman, Alexander I Tröster, Julie A Fields, Rebecca Brooks (J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci, 2002WINTER)
effects-depression-parkinson-s-disease-cognitive-functioning.asp

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Déjà vu: possible parahippocampal mechanisms.

Déjà vu experiences are common in normal subjects. In addition, they are established symptoms of temporal lobe seizures. The author argues that the phenomenon is the result of faulty and isolated activity of a recognition memory system that consists of ...
Josef Spatt (J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci, 2002WINTER)
déjà-vu-possible-parahippocampal-mechanisms.asp

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Developments in cognitive neuroscience: I. Conflict, compromise, and connectionism.

The strength of psychoanalysis has always been its understanding of affect and motivation. Contemporary developments in cognitive neuroscience offer possibilities of integrating sophisticated, experimentally informed models of thought and memory with an ...
Drew Westen, Glen O Gabbard (J Am Psychoanal Assoc, 2002WINTER)
developments-cognitive-neuroscience-conflict-compromise-connectionism.asp

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Individual differences in working memory during reading with and without parafoveal information: a moving-window study.

We examined individual differences in working memory appearing in the effective visual field size while reading Japanese text. Working memory capacity was measured by a Japanese reading span test, and the subjects were divided into high- and low-score ...
Naoyuki Osaka, Mariko Osaka (Am J Psychol, 2002WINTER)
individual-differences-working-memory-reading-parafoveal-information.asp

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Ensaculin (KA-672 HCl): a multitransmitter approach to dementia treatment.

Ensaculin, a novel benzopyranone substituted with a piperazine moiety, showed memory-enhancing effects in paradigms of passive and conditioned avoidance in both normal and artificially amnesic rodents. It exhibited neuroprotective activities in an NMDA ...
Robert Hoerr, Michael Noeldner (CNS Drug Rev, 2002SUMMER)
ensaculin-ka--hcl-multitransmitter-approach-dementia-treatment.asp

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Representation of memory for order of mental operations in cognitive tasks.

Recent research shows that people learning a cognitive task acquire a memory for the order of operations applied, independent of the data to which those operations were applied. We designed two experiments to show how this sequence memory is represented. ...
Michael K Gardner, Dan J Woltz, Brian G Bell (Am J Psychol, 2002SUMMER)
representation-memory-order-mental-operations-cognitive-tasks.asp