Fidelity, Mutual Respect Best Shields against AIDS

How Concentration Shields Against Distraction

In this article, we outline our view of how concentration shields against distraction. We argue that higher levels of concentration make people less susceptible to distraction for two reasons. One reason is that the undesired processing of the background environment is reduced. For example, when people play a difficult video game, as opposed to an easy game, they are less likely to notice what ...

RNA and Proteins: Mutual Respect

Proteins and RNA are often found in ribonucleoprotein particles (RNPs), where they function in cellular processes to synthesize proteins (the ribosome), chemically modify RNAs (small nucleolar RNPs), splice pre-mRNAs (the spliceosome), and, on a larger scale, sequester RNAs, degrade them, or process them (P bodies, Cajal bodies, and nucleoli). Each RNA-protein interaction is a story in itself, ...

Initial retrieval shields against retrieval-induced forgetting

Testing, as a form of retrieval, can enhance learning but it can also induce forgetting of related memories, a phenomenon known as retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF). In four experiments we explored whether selective retrieval and selective restudy of target memories induce forgetting of related memories with or without initial retrieval of the entire learning set. In Experiment 1, subjects stu...

Best of RESPECT, Part 2

Mutual respect: A key to facilitating learning.

241 I is indeed quite an honor to have been selected as the 2006 Arthur C. Guyton Teacher of the Year by the American P h y s i o l o g i c a l Society, and I am deeply appreciative of the society for offering this award and of those who supported my nomination for it. However, it is a bit troublesome to be singled out in this manner, since no one “wins” an award of this nature on their own. In...