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Memory problems that happen to perfectly normal people

Memory problems affect virtually everyone at some point in their daily lives, yet people often feel embarrassed or worried when they experience these perfectly normal cognitive hiccups. The human ...
Medical Xpress

Memory training technique may help lower stress by shifting recall patterns

Our minds have a tendency to latch onto negative experiences more strongly than positive ones. While occasional negative thoughts are a common human experience, persistent ones can trap people in a ...
Salon

Memory problems? Here’s why poor sleep may be the cause — and how to fix it

Researchers have long wished to understand the connection between sleep and memory, especially how the brain encodes long-term memories during slow-wave sleep (while discarding others), or the deep ...
Nature

Rich autobiographical memory benefits from both novelty and similarity to other daily experiences

Overview. Participants completed daily questionnaires via Qualtrics on their smartphones or computers spanning a 4-week period. The study consisted of four phases: the pre-survey questionnaire period, ...

Why scents carry the brain's strongest memory triggers and how that recall reaches back 20 plus years

Why scents trigger the brain's strongest memories and how smell can instantly unlock vivid recall from 20+ years ago.
Medical Xpress

Your sense of self is deeply tied to your memory—here's how

You might say you have a "bad memory" because you don't remember what cake you had at your last birthday party or the plot of a movie you watched last month. On the other hand, you might precisely ...
Medscape

Emotional Response to Music May Enhance Memory Specificity

Music that evokes an emotional response may influence the specificity of memory recall, new research suggests. Investigators found that participants who were shown a series of images of everyday items ...
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Memory problems? It’s not necessarily age – it could be what you’re eating

Wait, what was the name of that actress from the series I watched yesterday? If you also find yourself refreshing Google or the chat again and again to get answers instead of recalling them yourself – ...
Forbes

Memory Is Shaped By The Music We Listen To

Scientists are gradually understanding more about how and when music therapy works. One of the known uses of music in therapy is for Alzheimer’s and dementia therapy, where listening to music can help ...
Nature

Short-term plasticity influences episodic memory recall: an interplay of synaptic traces in a spiking neural network model

We investigated the interaction of episodic memory processes with the short-term dynamics of recency effects. This work takes inspiration from a seminal experimental work involving an odor-in-context ...
Psychology Today

What Causes Memory Problems?

This post is NOT devoted to memory problems related to normal aging, also called age-associated memory impairment (AAMI) where there is still some controversy whether it truly exists or there are ...