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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Memory functions"”.
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Conversational remembering and memory function: Do shared reality and elaboration enhance memory functions during autobiographical recall?
… self, social, and directive use of a recalled memory among Western college students. Three experiments were conducted to explore how the experience of a shared reality with an audience and communicator elaboration of a memory both contribute to memory function and well-being during …
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The Next Generation
… interrogates family structures, specifically how memory functions to illuminate the relationships between the speaker and the dead. At the same time, these reflections display the speaker's own flaws and limitations. Additionally, these poems question the nature of the connection between the …
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Exploring Age-Related Metamemory Differences Using Modified Brier Scores and Hierarchical Clustering
<p>Older adults (OAs) typically experience memory failures as they age. However, with some exceptions, studies of OAs’ ability to assess their own memory functions– Metamemory (MM)– find little evidence that this function is susceptible to age-related decline. Our study examines OAs’ and young …
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Memory tests for use with brain damaged adults in a multiracial general hospital : a preliminary validation study
… tests was developed to meet a need for a test of memory functions for use with patients from different racial, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds. The test performance of 35 patients with diagnoses implying disorders of the limbic system was compared with that of 35 normal controls matched …
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Theoretical study of single-molecule spectroscopy and vibrational spectroscopy in condensed phases
… number density, are proposed to map out the memory function, which characterizes the correlation in the conformational fluctuations. A semiflexible Gaussian chain model is used to determine the statistics and correlations of single-molecule fluorescence resonant energy transfer (FRET) …
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Neuropsychological subgroups of dementia of the Alzheimer's type
… groups overall showed greatest deficits in memory functions. The most severely impaired group was characterized by dramatically poorer language skills. Mean ages of the DAT groups was similar so that age alone did not appear to contribute to cluster differences. Moreover, information …
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Working memory, language, motivation and children's early writing: A three‐year longitudinal study
… young children and to ascertain whether working memory, language ability or motivation to write underlined children's early attempts to learn how to write. Working memory, language ability and the emergent writing skills of 30 Irish children were tested, in a longitudinal study over a three year …
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The Imagined After: Re-Positioning Social Memory Through Twentieth-Century Post-Apocalyptic Literature and Film
… first proposed a collective approach to memory in the early twentieth century, but the vast majority of subsequent scholarship investigates memory’s social properties from a theoretical point of view. This project instead proposes that memory functions as a social phenomenon in …
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Modeling the hippocampus : finely controlled memory storage using spiking neurons
… While a fundamental understanding of a traumatic memory is still elusive, studying the physiology and functional properties of the hippocampus are anessential first step. Towards that goal, I developed a detailed computational model of the hippocampus. The model included the important effects of …
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Neuropsychological impairment in children following head injury
… associated with poor cognitive outcome and which functions show persisting impairment. From 1134 children admitted with head injury to Red Cross and Groote Schuur Hospitals during a 2-year period, a consecutive sample of all those who had post-traumatic amnesia (PTA) over 1 hour, a compound …
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Constructing and Analyzing Neural Network Dynamics for Information Objectives and Working Memory
<p>Creation of quantitative models of neural functions and discovery of underlying principles of how neural circuits learn and compute are long-standing challenges in the field of neuroscience. In this work, we blend ideas from computational neuroscience, information and control theories with …
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Protein-mediated nanocrystal assembly for floating gate flash memory fabrication
… memories, the driving force of semiconductor memory market in recent years, also face the same or maybe more severe challenges to meet the demands for high-density, low-cost, low-power, high-speed, better endurance and longer retention time. As traditional continuous floating gate flash …
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The Impact of Pomegranate on Memory Dysfunction after Cardiac Surgery
… explored the impact of pomegranate on cognitive functions. Thus, the current pilot study is unique in its exploration of the effects of pomegranate on various health parameters and its possible effectiveness in reducing cognitive declines, specifically memory, after cardiac surgery. Methods: The …
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Amorphous silicon thin film transistor as nonvolatile device.
… Floating gate n-channel a-Si:H TFT nonvolatile memory device with a thin a- Si:H layer embedded in the SiNx gate dielectric layer has been prepared and studied. The hysteresis of the TFT's transfer characteristics has been used to demonstrate its memory function. A steady threshold voltage …
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Reducing distractibility in healthy older adults
… performance, processing speed, and working memory, functions not explicitly targeted by the intervention program. Additionally, the intervention also resulted in increased resting cerebral blood flow to the prefrontal cortex, a region known to demonstrate age-related hypoperfusion and to …
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A role for hippocampal and midbrain neural processing in context-dependent spatial memory
… place fields are critical to perform spatial memory tasks. By recording hippocampal place cell activity while rats performed a hippocampal-dependent spatial memory task, I demonstrated that the overall specificity of place fields appears to be critical for spatial memory functions. Specific …
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Neuropsychological aspects of arithmetic performance in children with learning disorders
… solving.Auditory-verbal attention and short-term memory, remote verbal memory, symbolic language integration, mental flexibility, and nonverbal abstract reasoning were the common neuropsychological constructs underpinning both auditory/verbal and visual/written arithmetic performance. Verbal …
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Gray matter covariance networks in the mouse brain
… with amelioration of hippocampal-based spatial memory functions. I next employed VBM to investigate scMRI networks in inbred mice using a seed-based approach. In striking resemblance with human findings, I observed the presence of homotopic (i.e. bilateral) architecture in several scMRI cortical …
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Distinct Neuropsychological Profile and Associated Neurochemical Changes in Individuals with Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathy, Lactic Acidosis, and Stroke-Like Episodes (MELAS)
… First, we examined verbal and visual memory function and its relationship to brain metabolites (lactate, NAA) in individuals with MELAS. Second, we hypothesized that MELAS would perform worse overall and show a selective profile of decline based on localization of seizure/stroke-like …
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Cell-type specific CB1 receptor modulation of hippocampal synaptic plasticity and memory
… is a major brain modulatory system that controls memory and learning mainly via the cannabinoid receptor type 1 (CB1)-dependent regulation of neuronal and glial activity. In the hippocampus, bidirectional communication between neurons and astrocytes shapes synaptic plasticity and behavior. CB1 …
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