Memory supports and enables social interactions in a variety of ways. In order to engage in successful social interaction, people must be able to remember...

learned quickly for an imminent test and rote methods can be helpful for committing an understood fact to memory. However, students who learn with understanding...

larger interactions show that collective memory in larger social networks can emerge due to cognitive mechanisms involved in small group interactions. With...

Eidetic memory (/aɪˈdɛtɪk/ eye-DET-ik), also known as photographic memory and total recall, is the ability to recall an image from memory with high precision—at...

False memory, where imagination is mistaken for a memory. Social cryptomnesia, a failure by people and society in general to remember the origin of a change...

tenor and pianist who developed chronic anterograde and retrograde amnesia in 1985. Since then, he has lacked the ability to form new memories and cannot...

determine the nature of the complex interactions between growth hormones, variables such as social environment, and memory development as neural development...

new memories after an event that caused amnesia, leading to a partial or complete inability to recall the recent past, while long-term memories from...

Short-term memory (or "primary" or "active memory") is the capacity for holding a small amount of information in an active, readily available state for...

distinguished between two types of memory: the "natural" memory and the "artificial" memory. The former is inborn and is the one that everyone uses instinctively...

a particular cat. Semantic memory and episodic memory are both types of explicit memory (or declarative memory), or memory of facts or events that can...

mutually exclusive. The idea of cultural memory draws heavily on European social anthropology, especially German and French. It is not well established in...

of false memory can be exemplified in prominent situations involving social interactions, such as eyewitness testimony. Research on memory conformity...

explicit memory (declarative memory) and implicit memory (non-declarative memory). Explicit memory is broken down into episodic and semantic memory, while...

psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory. Ebbinghaus discovered the forgetting curve and the spacing effect. He was the first person to describe...

concept is the strength of memory that refers to the durability that memory traces in the brain. The stronger the memory, the longer period of time that...

memories from the observer perspective. Studies also show that events with greater social interaction and significance produce more observer memories...

hypersensitivity to psychostimulants, reduced social interactions and impaired prepulse inhibition, working memory and set-shifting. Similar to schizophrenia...

with great contributions into memory research. Janet contributed to false memory through his ideas on dissociation and memory retrieval through hypnosis...

memory caused by brain damage or brain diseases, but it can also be temporarily caused by the use of various sedative and hypnotic drugs. The memory can...

working memory. Other suggested names were short-term memory, primary memory, immediate memory, operant memory, and provisional memory. Short-term memory is...

regulation of hunger, research on the neural basis of learning and memory, and in certain social phenomena such as the false consensus effect. Classical conditioning...

Recall in memory refers to the mental process of retrieval of information from the past. Along with encoding and storage, it is one of the three core processes...

Exceptional memory is the ability to have accurate and detailed recall in a variety of ways, including hyperthymesia, eidetic memory, synesthesia, and emotional...

Involuntary memory, also known as involuntary explicit memory, involuntary conscious memory, involuntary aware memory, madeleine moment, mind pops and most commonly...

also known as hyperthymestic syndrome or highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM), is a condition that leads people to be able to remember an abnormally...

scientifically controversial and remains disputed. Dissociative amnesia was previously known as psychogenic amnesia, a memory disorder, which was characterized...

consolidation of memories in the way that "interactions between the medial temporal lobe and various lateral cortical regions are thought to store memories outside...

memory recall is subject to distortion by other intervening cognitive functions and operations such as individual perceptions, social influences, and...

Memory is the faculty of the mind by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. It is the retention of information over time...