Participants in the brain-training group played Lumosity computer games designed to improve mental skills like memory; for example, they would have to click on fish to feed them while making sure not to feed the same fish twice.
Likewise, the source monitoring framework stresses the behavioural value of retrieving specific information from memory: memory is often probed in the service of action, and successful retrieval attempts give rise to positive outcomes (for example, searching memory for your mental grocery list while shopping)5.
Devised by Shah and Miyake (1996) this task combines mental rotation with short-term memory for the orientation of a sequence of arrows.
The effects of noise can also be task specific; for example, Banbury and Berry (1998, Expt. 1) found that background noise impaired performance on a mental arithmetic task, but not a memory for prose task, whereas background noise plus speech had a detrimental effect on performance in both tasks.
The current champion Nelson Dellis will also team up with neuropsychologists to convert the Rubin Museum of Art into a "memory palace," a mental trick for remembering things by imagining them in the rooms of a familiar building.
Because the brain uses memories for mental dress rehearsal, we are not wired to retain every facet of an event, scientists say.
The negative association of being illiterate is much larger for mental intactness than for memory.
You are that future being that in some sense inherits its mental features beliefs, memories, preferences, the capacity for rational thought, that sort of thing from you; and you are that past being whose mental features you have inherited in this way.
Today, we use applications like Instagram as "mental scaffolding" for our memories – and soon, predicts Silva, we will be able to fully immerse ourselves in the output of someone else's dreamspace without the square confines of a handheld device.
This paper reports the development and evaluation of a questionnaire to measure characteristics of memories of childbirth and to examine the relationship between memories for birth and mental health.
