memory

I am sure anyone reading this is aware of the 'Mandela effect'. I think it is real. But i do not think it is real in the way people say that it is. This is what I think it is, when you distill down all of the explanations: The effect of a perception of history that is at odds with the...

Fairly recently, I read or heard a story about a study that seemed to indicate that, during stressful situations, our brains store more images, and that maybe this is why, in our memory, time seems to have slowed. Anyone else hear about this, or was I imagining it? I've spent quite a bit of...

I found this book interesting, not just for the subject of memory enhancement, but for the great writing style, and intelligence that the author brings forth in the writing. Joshua Foer was assigned to cover the memory championships one year, and while talking to a couple of competitors, learns...

Review of Sybil Exposed by Debbie Nathan. http://www.salon.com/2011/10/16/sybil_exposed_memory_lies_and_therapy/ What should be the final chapter to this sad and horrifying nonsense. And yet -- 1.2 million hits on Google. But, at least, the False Memory Syndrome Foundation gets the tops...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/17/science/17memory.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&src=ig

Some time ago I watched a TED video about extending the human lifespan considerably by developing and utilising technologies to at least slow the ageing process. This made me wonder what it would be like to be (say) 300 years old but living in a body that was still in excellent condition...

There was an interesting poll on CNN.com this morning: Personally, I could go either way on this one. If it was cheap and safe, I might apply to have it done. But if it was inconvenient, I'm good to keep things as they are.

Daniel Tammet is a savant, autistic(?), and evidences synesthesia, the condition is apparently the result of an epileptic seizure. There was a thread 3 years ago, but the first time I have seen the videos. It is a 5 part series: "The Boy With The Incredible Brain". He recites pi to 22,000...

Great article in the latest eSkeptic: http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/10-09-01/ The article gives explanations as to why the following are myths: It sounds like a good book. Has anyone read it?

There are many amazing feats by various "savants" and autistic individuals such as portrayed in the movie Rainman, but the video below is just beyond what I consider to be in the realm of the possible. But if this is not for real, then what is the explanation? Is it a fact that he has never...

Not sure if this is bogus or genuine. I can't see anything overtly crazy about it. Supposedly you give the program information you want to remember and it schedules learning sessions for you at the times it figures you will get maximum retention from. http://www.supermemo.com/

Pater noster, qui es in caelis:sanctificetur Nomen Tuum;adveniat Regnum Tuum;fiat voluntas Tua,sicut in caelo, et in terra.Panem nostrum cotidianum da nobis hodie;et dimitte nobis debita nostra,Sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris;et ne nos inducas in tentationem;sed libera nos a Malo.

This came up in another thread, and I thought it worthy of its own so I've split it. Other then your husband (still waiting on that dry-gun lube btw), do you have any other source or reference...other then the movies you find on Oxygen or A&E that is. No campfire stories, but a scientifically...

At TAM, there are two features on opening day (June 19th) that are right down my alley. For those who haven't visited my Grey Matters site, I'm a big fan of amazing mental feats, especially when fun is made a large part of it. There's Dr. Arthur Benjamin, who does amazing math problems in his...

I have a colleague who wanted to know some stuff. I got him the info and he wanted to know what one of the words in it meant. (The word was apheresis.) He then said one of the three reasons why somebody would not remember a piece of text is the lack of understanding of just one of the words in...

Here's one to try. Try to remember your first school. Picture the building in your mind.

Story here. As a layman, I see lots of questions to ask, but I'm interested in the views of the real scientists (especially cognitive ones) on this board. I'm also interested in the views of non-scientists on this board. Legit? Too soon to tell? The sign of humanity's downfall?

Okay, this is going to sound ridiculous, but I don't believe in ghosts, yet I have a distinct memory of a very ghost-like experience. I was very young at the time, and I'm not sure exactly what happened, but I no longer think it was anything supernatural. Basically, I think my memory of what...

Rather than continue hijacking Drew599's thread on his predictions, I thought it might be useful to start one on the topic of dreaming and remembering the dreams--accurately or inaccurately. I don't often record dreams in my diary/journal, but I found one that I'll bet you guys can debunk in a...

So I was watching TV and I saw a commercial for flexon glasses that consisted of metal that you could twist & bend but would retain its original shape. I was like "that is f****** cool!" Then I thought...didn't I see & hear something about metal that could be bent & twisted but retain its...

I am teaching a Critical Thinking class, using Schick and Vaughn's great book "How to Think about Weird Things". There is a discussion about the so-called 100th monkey, and the gist of the discussion is that there never was a 100th monkey. The story sounded plausible, so no one checked up on the...

A paper published in last week’s issue of Science reports what our brains look like when we daydream. Below is a review of the findings by the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/18/AR2007011800997.html It goes into all sorts of juicy areas- like a...

Interesting article about recovered memory. According to the author, "recovered" memories aren't actually 4ecovered, but in fact have been there all along. It's not that the original memory is forgotten, is the fact that we remember that's forgotten. And it turns out that instances of...

According to Newsday, an article in today's Science authored by Dietrich Stephan, demonstrated that a form of the Kibra gene may differentiate between people with better or worse memories. I don't have access to the article, but the story says that 341 college students memorized a list of words...

Whenever I think about the way we filter memories, I recall this snippet from Mark Twain: "Only four days ago, right in the next farm house to the one where I am spending the summer, a grandmother, old and gray and sweet, one of the loveliest spirits in the land, was sitting at her work, when...

If I read a copyrighted work and commit it reasonably perfectly to memory, am I violating the copyright? "All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. This publication is protected by copyright, and permission must be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited...

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/09/29/D8KEPNT80.html Does this guy not remember the last few years? There have been many so-called famly movies produced recently. Off the top of my head: Finding Nemo, Over the Hedge, Narnia, Madigascar, Wallace and Gromit, The Incredibles, Ella Enchanted...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/memory/share/consent.shtml

What do people think about this concept?

You know, I was taught that planaria would gain the knowledge of their cannibalized brethren when I was in JR. High! Granted that was 13-14 years ago, but a heck of a lot later than the 1930's! I had no idea that wasn't true. :mad: Does anyone else remember learning this? Edited for clarity.