Paws + cause = pause? Memory load and memory blends in homophone recognition

Working Memory Load Attenuates Emotional Enhancement in Recognition Memory

Emotionally arousing stimuli are perceived and remembered better than neutral stimuli. Under threat, this negativity bias is further increased. We investigated whether working memory (WM) load can attenuate incidental memory for emotional images. Two groups of participants performed the N-back task with two WM load levels. In one group, we induced anxiety using a threat of shock paradigm to inc...

L-carnosine Improves Short-Term Spatial Recognition Memory and Passive Avoidance Learning and Memory in Streptozotocin-Diabetic Rats

Background and Objective: Diabetes mellitus (DM) affects synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus, leading to impairments in learning and memory. L-carnosine, an endogenous dipeptide, is reported to exhibit anti-diabetic and antioxidant effects. Therefore, this study was designed to evaluate its effect on learning and memory in diabetic rats. Materials and Methods: In the present study, male Wis...

Prosody, Memory Load, and Memory for Speech

Previous experiments indicate that prosody may facilitate memory for spoken utterances. Memory load, however, has not been systematically manipulated and may interact with such facilitating effects. Therefore, subjects were asked to listen to connected prose passages between one to five intonation phrases long and to repeat as much of each narrative as possible. Stimuli were normal productions ...

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Spatial memory, recognition memory, and the hippocampus.

There is wide agreement that spatial memory is dependent on the integrity of the hippocampus, but the importance of the hippocampus for nonspatial tasks, including tasks of object recognition memory is not as clear. We examined the relationship between hippocampal lesion size and both spatial memory and object recognition memory in rats. Spatial memory was impaired after bilateral dorsal hippoc...