One hundred years after the United States’ entry into the 1914–18 world war, what aspects of this vast global conflict, and of America’s role in it, are worthy of commemoration? First and foremost, we remember the ten million men all over the world who lost their lives in the war. Indeed, remembering this “Lost Generation” is […]
Read MoreThe hippocampus binds information between different cortical regions during long-term memory. However, long-term memories may only depend on the hippocampus for a limited time. In the standard model of memory consolidation, a long-term memory representation changes from being based on hippocampal-cortical interactions to being based on cortical-cortical interactions, which takes a period of somewhere between […]
Read MoreScott D. Slotnick author of Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory discusses the link between Alzheimer's and long term memory.
Read MoreDo all animals have episodic memory? Scott D. Slotnick author of Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory discusses episodic memory in mammals.
Read MoreForgetting in everyday life can usually be attributed to a failure to attend to information. This could be for numerous reasons such as not being interested in the material, being distracted by a cell phone, being sleepy, or thinking about something else. Attention has been shown to be a key aspect of encoding information, even […]
Read MoreScott D. Slotnick author of Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory asks the question Is the Hippocampus Associated with Implicit Memory?
Read MoreScott D. Slotnick author of Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory gives us an insight into superior memory research.
Read MoreIn this blog post Rory Loughnane, editor of The Memory Arts in Renaissance England, explores the importance of studying the Art of Memory.
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