Essays on Memory

Amnesia is actually a rare condition in which an individual cannot remember or learn information that is saved in memory. Amnesia refers to a great loss of memories that should not have been lost, such as important milestones, people, and knowledge. Some other symptoms of…

Introduction Cognition is the understanding and development of mental processes through senses and experiences to obtain knowledge. The areas of cognition in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncates) I will be exploring are: long term memory, attention and sensory perception. Early interest in bottlenose dolphin cognition arose…

Déjà vu is when a person finds himself in a familiar situation in spite of the feeling that the situation has never occurred before. The topic of research is amorphous in nature as the reason of this phenomenon is not clear yet. Researchers of cognitive…

In new studies, researchers aim to discover the ways animal brains with fornix lesions behave in instances where they must rely on their recognition ability, which allows them optimum choice, when it is hard or impossible to recall (Clayton & Dickinson, 1998). From this research,…

Amnesia for crimes is a controversial issue with legal implications. Claims of amnesia are quite common in clinical practice, and because dissociative states fall under a defense of mental illness to mental health professionals, it is often necessary to provide expert testimony to cases involving…

Introduction: Flashbulb memories arise out of situations in which one first hears of a surprising or emotionally arousing event (Brown & Kulik,1977). (Spanhel, Wagner, Geiger, Ofer, Schulze-Bonhage & Metternich (2018) categorizes FBM’s as a subgroup of autobiographical memories that are associated with emotionally arousing news….

The target paper had strengths that ensured its successful outcomes-yet contained limitations that could have been improved to have effective outcomes. One of the advantages of the study is the methodology used in the study. For example, Talarico and Rubin (2003) used random assignment to…

Have you ever had this strange feeling that you feel like you have seen or experienced whatever that is happening now before? Or even dreamt about it before? Déjà vu is a kind of feeling. In French, déjà vu means “already seen”. It is a…

Almost everyone has at least one strong, vivid, emotional memory of a significant and/or shocking event that has occurred in their past, no matter how long ago it happened. This kind of memory is called a flashbulb memory. Flashbulb memories are very intense and vivid…

Deja vu is a feeling of having already experienced the present situation. Frequently, deja vu hits more times than we can count. When it does, it’s creepy effects leaves people feeling as though they are floating in the clouds of wonder for a few minutes…