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Technology

How Is Technology Redefining Human Memory?

The only number most people still have memorised is their mother’s or some other family member’s number, saved not just in the phone, but in the mind as well. For what occasion exactly, though? That’s harder to pin down. What’s

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The Importance of Memory in AI Companionship

Memory helps people feel understood. This can happen when a friend inquires about something you mentioned in the past. It can happen when a therapist recognizes a repeating pattern, or when someone recalls what makes you feel better after a

Awareness Health

False Memory Syndrome: Between Truth and Belief 

Memory is the process of encoding, storing and retrieving the information. Memory is a fascinating phenomenon. From remembering someone’s name and contact number to remembering some difficult mathematical equations, memory plays a prominent role in encoding, retrieving and storing the

Awareness

How the Brain Remembers Trauma Differently: Understanding Traumatic Memory

The fascinating story of Ben McMahon, an Australian man who was the victim of a serious car accident, is one of the ways we see the mysteries of the brain in real life.  He woke up from a coma in 2012

Research

Memory Trajectories in Lonely Individuals: Evidence from a 7-Year Longitudinal Study

For a long period of time, people have been extremely persistent in maintaining the belief that the feeling of loneliness makes a person age faster, rather than at the normal pace of ageing. These belief systems are mainly developed due

Awareness

How Chronic Stress Disrupts Working Memory: The Role of Cortisol Awakening Response

How Dysregulated HPA-Axis Activation Correlates with Working Memory Deficits Under Chronic Stress. The human brain is very susceptible to stress. Although short bursts of stress might make a person sharper and more efficient, chronic stress speaks a different language –

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How Life Events Shape Autobiographical Memory Across the Lifespan

This research explores how memories of personal life events are affected by ageing and how people remember important experiences differently as they grow older. Rather than treating memory as something fixed or unchanging, the study shows that memories, especially of

Parenting Positive

When My Memory Lied to Me: How I learned that our childhood isn’t the Blueprint for our children

I’ve spent so many years in classrooms, teaching children of different ages. I’ve helped students with different needs, helped them manage academics, time and school work, mediated playground and corridor disputes, and celebrated milestones, thinking I had a good grasp

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When Memory Meets Motivation: The Hippocampus at Work

This research explores how the hippocampus, a key part of the brain involved in memory and learning, also plays a role in reward prediction, the ability to anticipate positive outcomes based on past experiences. The study shows that the hippocampus does

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How Memory Can Be Rewritten: Episodic and Semantic Memory Retrieval

This research explores how human memory is not fixed the moment it is formed, but can be rewritten or modified when recalled. Instead of treating memories as unchangeable recordings, the study shows that when a person retrieves a memory, whether