Peterson et al. (2005) found evidence to suggest that the age of a child's earliest episodic memory is influenced by that child's current age, with younger children appearing capable of recollecting memories from significantly younger ages than older children.
Robert Shiller, the Yale economist, said, "One thing we know about human behavior is that our memory is influenced by recent events".
That is to say, spatial memory is influenced by the assumption of reference axes determined by preeminent characteristics of the environment.
We next investigated how odour memory is influenced by motivation factors such as mating or egg-load, and how much variation is due to inheritance, using isofemale lines.
Our results demonstrate that the maintenance of scene information in short-term memory is influenced by the availability of attentional and/or processing resources during the gap, and that this dependence appears to be modality specific.
First, a history of language delay was assessed via parental recollection and thus all caveats (e.g., loss of detailed information, memory bias influenced by current perception, etc).
Hippocampal dependent learning and memory are influenced by reward, and SPW-R events contribute to these functions (Jadhav et al., 2012; Girardeau et al., 2009; Ego-Stengel and Wilson, 2010).
Albert, Lópex-Martin, and Carretié (2010) showed that stimuli portrayed with positive emotional context induced greater activation during response inhibition in an ERP experimental design, while Schirmer (2010) showed that valence of neutral words in memory is influenced by the affective prosody present during encoding but does not affect retrieval ability.
It has been demonstrated that human memory is influenced by several factors, such as prior knowledge (e.g., [ 11, 14, 15]), current mental state or emotions (e.g., [ 11, 13, 14, 16- 20]), and therefore does not reflect a perfect documentation of the external world.
It is possible that these memories were influenced by the information received by others (family, friends), or that patients 1 week after ICU discharge were not thinking as clearly as they were 3 months later.
