There is evidence that specificity of autobiographical memory (AM) retrieval is impaired by cortisol. However, it is unknown whether glucocorticoids differentially influence the retrieval of recent versus remote AMs. Therefore, the aim of the current study was to investigate the effects of cortisol on AM retrieval, in terms of memory specificity, with respect to remoteness of the retrieved memo...

MPI/MBCF is a high-performance MPI library targeting a cluster of workstations connected by a commodity network. It is implemented with the Memory-Based Communication Facilities (MBCF), which provides software mechanisms for users to access remote task's memory space with oo-the-shelf network hardware. MPI/MBCF uses Memory-Based FIFO for message buuering and Remote Write for communication witho...

Temporally graded retrograde amnesia is observed in human patients with medial temporal lobe lesions as well as in animal models of medial temporal lobe lesions. A time-limited role for these structures in memory recall has also been suggested by the observation that the rodent hippocampus and entorhinal cortex are activated during the retrieval of recent but not of remote memories. One notable...

MPI/MBCF is a high-performance MPI library targeting a cluster of workstations connected by a commodity network. It is implemented with the Memory-Based Communication Facilities (MBCF), which provides software mechanisms for users to access remote task's memory space with o -the-shelf network hardware. MPI/MBCF uses Memory-Based FIFO for message bu ering and Remote Write for communication witho...

Massive datasets prevalent in scale-out, enterprise, and high-performance computing are driving a trend toward ever-larger memory capacities per node. To satisfy the memory demands and maximize performance per unit cost, today’s commodity HPC and server nodes tend to feature multi-socket shared memory NUMA organizations. An important problem in these designs is the high latency of accessing mem...

Vocal expression of emotions (EE) in retrieval of events from autobiographical memory was investigated in patients in early stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Twenty-one AD patients and 19 controls were interviewed, and EE of the reported memories was rated by 8 independent evaluators. The AD group had lower EE of both recent and remote memory than controls, although EE in remote memories was ...

Software-implementations of shared memory are still far behind the performance of hardwarebased shared memory implementations and are not viable options for most fine-grain sharedmemory applications. The major source for their inefficiency comes from the cost of interruptbased asynchronous protocol processing, not from the actual network latency. As the raw hardware latency of inter-node commun...

The time scale of hippocampal involvement in retrieving memories, particularly those more remote, is still a matter of debate. Some propose that the hippocampus is not involved in the retrieval of remote memories, whereas others assert that it is necessary for memory retrieval in perpetuity. Functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to examine the effect of remoteness on the neural basis o...

A long-standing question in memory neuroscience concerns how and where autobiographical memories of personal experiences are represented in the brain. In a previous high resolution multivoxel pattern analysis fMRI study, we examined two week old (recent) and ten year old (remote) autobiographical memories (Bonnici et al., 2012, J. Neurosci. 32:16982-16991). We found that remote memories were pa...