Tag: memories
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Travelling back in time with the mind. The past. Death. The beach…
In one important way, we are capable of traveling back in time. Through memory, we can return to childhood, go back to the moment we first fell in love or recall our first professional triumph. Vivid memories that call to mind an experience in deep sensory detail can seem to transport us back to another…
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Learning rules. Having false memories…
Our tendency to create false memories could be related to our ability to learn rules according to new research. New research suggests that individuals who are particularly good at learning rules and classifying objects by common properties are also particularly prone to false memory illusions. (1) Forget whatever you have learned. It is the only…
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Oblivion. Remembering. Knowing.
Oblivion is a 2013 post-apocalyptic science fiction film based on Joseph Kosinski’s unpublished graphic novel of the same name. (1) See all those scientists today experimenting on memory. They say they wish us well. But could it be the other way around? What if they had bad intentions? What if they wanted to change our…
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Sleep tight. Learn. Remember…
Rest easy after learning a new skill. Experiments in mice suggest that a good night’s sleep helps us lay down memories by promoting the growth of new connections between brain cells. Neuroscientists believe that memory involves the modification of synapses, which connect brain cells, and numerous studies published over the past decade have shown that sleep…
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Deleting memories to… errrr… I forgot!
Scientists claim that they can use specific drus to block bad memories from forming. They also claim they can erase bad memories! (1) But how can you do that when you do not know how memory works or where memories are stored? (check out the relative “memory” tag in both Harmonia Philosophica portals) How dangerous…
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