Memory

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The effects of single-dose lorazepam on memory and behavioural learning.

To assess the influence of lorazepam on memory and behavioural learning, a non-clinical sample of undergraduate psychology students (n = 24), received lorazepam (2.5 mg) or placebo orally. Pre-drug and post-drug neuropsychological assessment comprised ...
Allison Matthews, Kenneth C Kirkby, Frances Martin (J Psychopharmacol, 200212)
effects-single-dose-lorazepam-memory-behavioural-learning.asp

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Cold case homicides. Investigative interviews of child witnesses.

Nurses interviewing child witnesses in cold case homicide investigations face unique challenges arising from the passage of time. 2. Postevent influences must be evaluated carefully when examining childrens descriptions about remote events. 3. ...
Tascha Boychuk-Spears (J Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv, 200212)
cold-case-homicides-investigative-interviews-child-witnesses.asp

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Tracking the time-course of attentional involvement in spatial working memory: an event-related potential investigation.

Spatial working memory is a cognitive brain mechanism that enables the temporary maintenance and manipulation of spatial information. Recent neuroimaging and behavioral studies have led to the proposal that directed spatial attention is the mechanism by ...
Amishi P Jha (Brain Res Cogn Brain Res, 200212)
tracking-time-course-attentional-involvement-spatial-working-memory.asp

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REM and NREM sleep as natural accompaniments of the evolution of warm-bloodedness.

Divergence of primitive sleep into REM and NREM states is thought to have occurred in the nocturnal Triassic ancestors of mammals as a natural accompaniment of the evolution of warm-bloodedness. As ambient temperatures during twilight portions of ...
J Lee Kavanau (Neurosci Biobehav Rev, 200212)
rem-nrem-sleep-natural-accompaniments-evolution-warm-bloodedness.asp

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Emotionally charged autobiographical memories across the life span: the recall of happy, sad, traumatic, and involuntary memories.

A sample of 1,241 respondents between 20 and 93 years old were asked their age in their happiest, saddest, most traumatic, most important memory, and most recent involuntary memory. For older respondents, there was a clear bump in the 20s for the most ...
Dorthe Berntsen, David C Rubin (Psychol Aging, 200212)
emotionally-charged-autobiographical-memories-across-life-span-recall.asp

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The effects of sad mood on memory in older adults: a test of the mood congruence effect.

Mood congruence effects have long been studied in younger adults, but not in older adults. Socioemotional selectivity theory (SST) suggests that mood congruence could operate differently in older adults. One hundred and nineteen younger and 78 older ...
Bob G Knight, Michele L Maines, Gia S Robinson (Psychol Aging, 200212)
effects-sad-mood-memory-older-adults-test-mood-congruence-effect.asp

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Aging and autobiographical memory: dissociating episodic from semantic retrieval.

Cognitive aging research documents reduced access to contextually specific episodic details inolder adults, whereas access to semantic or other nonepisodic information is preserved or facilitated. The present study extended this finding to ...
Brian Levine, Eva Svoboda, Janine F Hay, Gordon Winocur, Morris Moscovitch (Psychol Aging, 200212)
aging-autobiographical-memory-dissociating-episodic-semantic-retrieval.asp

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Somatic markers, working memory, and decision making.

The somatic marker hypothesis formulated by Damasio (e.g., 1994; Damasio, Tranel, & Damasio, 1991) argues that affective reactions ordinarily guide and simplify decision making. Although originally intended to explain decision-making deficits in people ...
John M Hinson, Tina L Jameson, Paul Whitney (Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci, 200212)
somatic-markers-working-memory-decision-making.asp

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Freuds problem: cognitive neuroscience & psychoanalysis working together on memory.

The first part of this paper discusses the development of Freuds views on memory from the time of the Project up to the formulation of the second topography. Freuds attempts to match his psychological views with an organic model were necessarily ...
Gilbert Pugh (Int J Psychoanal, 200212)
freud-s-problem-cognitive-neuroscience-psychoanalysis-working.asp

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Methods of assessing neurobehavioral development in children exposed to methyl parathion in Mississippi and Ohio.

Methyl parathion (MP), an organophosphate pesticide, was sprayed illegally for pest control in U.S. residences and businesses in Mississippi and Ohio. To evaluate the association between MP exposure and neurobehavioral development, children 6 years of ...
Perri Zeitz, Kirsten Kakolewski, Rubina Imtiaz, Wendy Kaye (Environ Health Perspect, 200212)
methods-assessing-neurobehavioral-development-children-exposed-methyl.asp