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Doorway effect. The ' doorway effect ' or ' location updating effect ' is a replicable psychological phenomenon characterized by short-term memory loss when passing through a doorway or moving from one location to another. [1] We tend to forget items of recent significance immediately after crossing a boundary [2] and often forget what we were ...
Memory and retention are linked because any retained information is kept in human memory stores, therefore without human memory processes, retention of material would not be possible. [ 4 ] In addition, memory and the process of learning are also closely connected. Memory is a site of storage and enables the retrieval and encoding of ...
Echoic memory. Echoic memory is the sensory memory that registers specific to auditory information (sounds). Once an auditory stimulus is heard, it is stored in memory so that it can be processed and understood. [1] Unlike most visual memory, where a person can choose how long to view the stimulus and can reassess it repeatedly, auditory ...
Autobiographical memory. Autobiographical memory (AM) [1] is a memory system consisting of episodes recollected from an individual's life, based on a combination of episodic (personal experiences and specific objects, people and events experienced at particular time and place) [2] and semantic (general knowledge and facts about the world ...
Forgetting curve. The forgetting curve hypothesizes the decline of memory retention in time. This curve shows how information is lost over time when there is no attempt to retain it. [1] A related concept is the strength of memory that refers to the durability that memory traces in the brain. The stronger the memory, the longer period of time ...
The hippocampus is a structure in the brain that has been associated with various memory functions. It is part of the limbic system, and lies next to the medial temporal lobe. It is made up of two structures, the Ammon's Horn, and the Dentate gyrus, each containing different types of cells. [1]
Reconstructive memory is a theory of memory recall, in which the act of remembering is influenced by various other cognitive processes including perception, imagination, motivation, semantic memory and beliefs, amongst others. People view their memories as being a coherent and truthful account of episodic memory and believe that their ...
Human memory process. Numerous theoretical accounts of memory have differentiated memory for facts and memory for context. Psychologist Endel Tulving (1972; 1983) further defined these two declarative memory conceptions of explicit memory (in which information is consciously registered and recalled) into semantic memory wherein general world ...