Recognition memory can be supported by the processes of recollection and familiarity. Recollection is recovery of qualitative information about a prior event. Familiarity is a scalar strength signal that permits judgments of prior occurrence. There is vigorous debate about how these processes are conceptualized, how they contribute to memory judgments, and which brain regions support them. One ...

This research started as an effort to recover lost childhood memories. I (Emilio Bassail) used the film-making apparatus a device that allowed me excavate, elaborate and produce representations based on small fragments of memory had left. After creating archive reconstructed memories, questioning images unearthed. position interrogate challenge discourses behind images. What discovered is forge...

Memory is a way of connecting people with their pasts. Historical buildings, museums, archives and monuments are some the tools which help to remember pasts (Nora, 1989). Books also have perspective about communal past. However, these things lose meaning in dystopian society like one portrayed Fahrenheit 451. Memories turn into weapons that destruct threaten human happiness foundations society....

The particularly high treatment gap in alcohol-dependence suggests the existence of important barriers to treatment decision and in particular difficulties in problem recognition. This study tested the relation between problem recognition and self-related memories. Forty-one recently detoxified alcohol-dependent individuals (AD) were compared to twenty alcoholic subjects that were abstinent for...

Already after 6 months we found that the students had forgotten a lot of the scientific content. Very often they showed a familiarity (recognition) with the situations and objects showed to them but they were unable to identify (recall) and label them. However they did remember some spectacular moment, the sudden appearance of a fox and a moose. They did also remember things and situations when...

How accurately can people remember how they felt in the past? Although some investigators hold that emotional memories are res is tant to change, we review evidence that current emotions, appraisals, and coping efforts, as well as personality traits, are all associated with bias in recalling past emotions. Bias occurs as memories of emotional states are updated in light of subsequent experience...

The fundamental problem raised by reparations, and particularly reparations litigation, is the question of how to apportion responsibility for historical wrongs. The most controversial harm targeted by reparations litigation is the enslavement of Africans and African Americans and the injuries consequent to that enslavement. The task faced by such litigation, therefore, is to construct persuasi...

The ability to remember is often compromised by competition from irrelevant memories. However, acts of selective remembering can alter the competitive relationship between memories; memories that are selected against are weakened, whereas those that are retrieved are strengthened. Whereas the weakening of selected-against memories is typically evidenced by subsequently poorer recall of these me...