How do we remember public events? Pioneering a new area of everyday memory research

How we remember what we can do

According to the motor simulation theory, the knowledge we possess of what we can do is based on simulation mechanisms triggered by an off-line activation of the brain areas involved in motor control. Action capabilities memory does not work by storing some content, but consists in the capacity, rooted in sensory-motor systems, to reenact off-line action sequences exhibiting the range of our po...

Why do we remember? The communicative function of episodic memory.

Episodic memory has been analyzed in a number of different ways in both philosophy and psychology, and most controversy has centered on its self-referential, 'autonoetic' character. Here, we offer a comprehensive characterization of episodic memory in representational terms, and propose a novel functional account on this basis. We argue that episodic memory should be understood as a distinctive...

How do we remember the past in randomised strategies?

Graph games of infinite length are a natural model for open reactive processes: one player represents the controller, trying to ensure a given specification, and the other represents a hostile environment. The evolution of the system depends on the decisions of both players, supplemented by chance. In this work, we focus on the notion of randomised strategy. More specifically, we show that thre...

New Orthopaedic Residents and Research: How do we Approach

Different tests for a difference: how do we do research?

• Frequentist probability concerns the possibility of NO difference • The starting premise is a population with known features • Bayes’ theories concern modifying a pre-existing possibility • Experiments revise the previous estimate • Lab experiments do not often use random samples • Small numbers, random allocation to treatment • Well suited to permutation tests • Choose the test when you devi...