Memory

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The biology of the cellular prion protein.

Prions are the etiological agents for infectious degenerative encephalopaties acting by inducing conformational changes in the cellular prion protein (PrPc), which is a cell membrane GPI anchored glycoprotein. Besides its conservation among species and ...
Vilma Regina Martins, Ricardo Renzo Brentani (Neurochem Int, 200211)
biology-cellular-prion-protein.asp

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The effect of associative strength on priming in the cerebral hemispheres.

Recent studies have suggested that semantic memory is more diffusely organized in the right hemisphere of the brain and that words directed to this hemisphere are more likely to activate meanings distantly related to the input. It is argued that this ...
Jeffrey Coney (Brain Cogn, 200211)
effect-associative-strength-priming-cerebral-hemispheres.asp

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The effect of specific test queries on source-monitoring event-related potentials.

Source-monitoring decision processes were manipulated during retrieval while event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded. Words were either seen or heard at study, and memory for modality was measured on two separate yes-no source tests. Decision ...
P Andrew Leynes (Brain Cogn, 200211)
effect-specific-test-queries-source-monitoring-event-related.asp

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Synesthetic color experiences influence memory.

We describe the extraordinary memory of C, a 21-year-old student who experiences synesthetic colors (i.e., photisms) when she sees, hears, or thinks of digits. Using three matrices of 50 digits, we tested C and 7 nonsynesthetes to evaluate whether Cs ...
Daniel Smilek, Mike J Dixon, Cera Cudahy, Philip M Merikle (Psychol Sci, 200211)
synesthetic-color-experiences-influence-memory.asp

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Glutamate uptake in synaptic plasticity: from mollusc to mammal.

A great deal of research has been directed toward understanding the cellular mechanisms underlying synaptic plasticity and memory formation. To this point, most research has focused on the more "active" components of synaptic transmission: presynaptic ...
Jonathan M Levenson, Edwin J Weeber, J David Sweatt, Arnold Eskin (Curr Mol Med, 200211)
glutamate-uptake-synaptic-plasticity-mollusc-mammal.asp

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Belief and feeling: evidence for an accessibility model of emotional self-report.

This review organizes a variety of phenomena related to emotional self-report. In doing so, the authors offer an accessibility model that specifies the types of factors that contribute to emotional self-reports under different reporting conditions. One ...
Michael D Robinson, Gerald L Clore (Psychol Bull, 200211)
belief-feeling-evidence-accessibility-model-emotional-self-report.asp

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Toward clinical application of neuropsychological activation probes with SPECT: a spatial working memory task.

The concept of working memory is central to theories of human cognition, because it is essential to human skills such as decision making and deductive reasoning. Although PET and functional MRI have provided robust data on the recruitment of specific ...
Ingeborg Goethals, Kurt Audenaert, Filip Jacobs, Christophe Van De Wiele, Griet Vermeir, André Vandierendonck, Cees Van Heeringen, Rudi Dierckx (J Nucl Med, 200211)
toward-clinical-application-neuropsychological-activation-probes.asp

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Longitudinal assessment of serum free testosterone concentration predicts memory performance and cognitive status in elderly men.

Circulating testosterone (T) levels have behavioral and neurological effects in both human and nonhuman species. Both T concentrations and neuropsychological function decrease substantially with age in men. The purpose of this prospective, longitudinal ...
Scott D Moffat, Alan B Zonderman, E Jeffrey Metter, Marc R Blackman, S Mitchell Harman, Susan M Resnick (J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 200211)
longitudinal-assessment-serum-free-testosterone-concentration.asp

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Spontaneous trait inferences are bound to actors faces: evidence from a false recognition paradigm.

A false recognition paradigm showed that spontaneous trait inferences (STIs) are bound to the person performing a trait-implying behavior. In 6 experiments, participants memorized faces and behavioral sentences. When faces were paired with implied traits ...
Alexander Todorov, James S Uleman (J Pers Soc Psychol, 200211)
spontaneous-trait-inferences-bound-actors-faces-evidence-false.asp

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Influences of postconceptional age and postnatal experience on the development of auditory recognition memory in the newborn infant.

We evaluated the effects of postconceptional age and postnatal experience on the development of neonatal auditory recognition memory. Three groups were tested: a premature newborn group (tested at 35-38 weeks postconceptional age, < or = 1 week old), a ...
Raye-Ann deRegnier, Sandi Wewerka, Michael K Georgieff, Frank Mattia, Charles A Nelson (Dev Psychobiol, 200211)
influences-postconceptional-age-postnatal-experience-development.asp