Essays on Memory

Savants are individual people who are able to show extraordinary skills that the average human being could not show on their own. Savants also show signs of not having specific cognitive skills that most humans need to have to be apart of society. This is…

Throughout our daily lives, there are many different cognitive functions we use to survive, such as eating, sleeping, driving, etc. Without these functions, we’d be practically useless, not able to do the things that make us human. Being able to multitask, and retain knowledge through…

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…

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,…

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…

Oral History is a recorded conversation, conducted according to generally accepted professional rules aimed at turning personal memories into publicly accessible certificates. Typically, the interviewees viewed or participated in an event regarding the given subject. Oral History refers to the finished product, the story of…

Risk taking behavior is known as a adolescent’s behavior that risk their life, health, development and transition to subsequent developmental periods (Yılmaz Irmak, 2014). The reason I decide to study with adolescents is as Morningstar and his colleagues (2019) mentioned to compare adults, adolescent’s emotions…

Memory is a central component of the mind. It affects all of human functioning and is central to the development of the self. Various philosophers have explored the concept and tried to connect memory with several others ideas. John Locke was of the view that…

Introduction You may have heard individuals portray themselves as strictly “right-brained” or “left-brained,” with the left-brainers boasting about their math abilities and the right-brainers touting their imagination (Harris, 2013). That is on account of the brain is partitioned down the center into two sides of…

Our brain is one of the finer organs in our body, but just like any other organ, It is made up of chemicals, cells, and tissue. Another name for plasticity is neuroplasticity. A great analogy to use about the brain is that it operates like…