Role of Secondary Sensory Cortices in Emotional Memory Storage and Retrieval in Rats

Science ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 329 (5992) ◽  
pp. 649-656 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Sacco ◽  
B. Sacchetti
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Memory ◽  
Memory Storage ◽  
Storage And Retrieval ◽  
Sensory Cortices

The role of vocalization, memory retrieval, and external symbols in cognitive evolution

1996 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merlin Donald
Keyword(s):  
Memory Retrieval ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Memory Storage ◽  
Cognitive Evolution ◽  
Storage And Retrieval ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Vocal Apparatus

AbstractThe human vocal apparatus is part of a vertically integrated system, and I agree with Licbennan that modern high-speed phonology co-evolved with our capacity for grammar. Olson and I agree that some distinctly human thought skills appear to be fairly recent cultural acquisitions related to the introduction of new symbolic technologies and external (that is, nonbiological) memory storage. Stenning's concern with my use of the term “episodic” can be resolved by distinguishing between episodic storage and retrieval. Baum's suggestions regarding courtship and cognitive evolution seem to apply better to mimetic expression than to language.

FROM CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE TO MEMORY STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL: THE ROLE OF QUANTUM BRAIN DYNAMICS AND BOSON CONDENSATION OF EVANESCENT PHOTONS

1996 ◽  
Vol 10 (13n14) ◽  
pp. 1735-1754 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARI JIBU ◽  
KARL H. PRIBRAM ◽  
KUNIO YASUE
Keyword(s):  
Radiation Field ◽  
Conscious Experience ◽  
The Body ◽  
Memory Storage ◽  
Extracellular Water ◽  
Theoretical Formulation ◽  
Storage And Retrieval ◽  
Dendritic Processing ◽  
Electric Dipoles

A quantum field theoretical formulation of an interaction between the radiation field and the electric dipole field of intracellular and extracellular water in perimembranous dendritic compartments is proposed. The intercellular spaces filled mostly with water are shown to be not just a filler but a proper substrate for dendritic processing composed of a boson condensation of evanescent photons. Macroscopic ordered dynamics of the electric dipoles of water in the perimembranous region immediately adjacent to dendritic membranes provides interactions with the radiation field to produce evanescent photons that ensure that the critical temperature of the boson condensation can be higher than the body temperature. Thus, superconducting phenomena can take place. Such a high-temperature boson condensate of evanescent photons can be understood as a physical substrate for distributed saltatory processing in dendritic arborizations. Memory storage can be understood in terms of processing involving the ionic coating of the dynamically ordered structure of water facilitated by the boson condensate of evanescent photons.

scholarly journals The role of schemas and scripts in pictorial narration

Semiotica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Ranta
Keyword(s):  
Decisive Role ◽  
Schema Theory ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Levels Of Abstraction ◽  
Event Sequences ◽  
Storage And Retrieval ◽  
Narrative Structures ◽  
Northwestern University ◽  
Generalized Knowledge

Abstract The theoretical debate on the nature of narrative has been mainly concerned with literary narratives, whereas forms of non-literary and especially pictorial narrativity have been somewhat neglected. In this paper, however, I shall discuss narrativity specifically with regard to pictorial objects in order to clarify how pictorial storytelling may be based on the activation of mentally stored action and scene schemas. Approaches from cognitive psychology, such as the work of Schank, Roger C. & Robert P. Abelson. 1977. Scripts, plans, goals and understanding. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum; Mandler, Jean Matter. 1984. Stories, scripts, and scenes: Aspects of schema theory. London/Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum; Schank, Roger C. 1995. Tell me a story: Narrative and intelligence. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, suggest that cognition crucially depends on the storage and retrieval of action scripts or schemata, that is, narrative structures, which may occur at various levels of abstraction. These schemas incorporate generalized knowledge about event sequences, such as the order in which specific events will take place; causal, enabling, or conventionalized relations between these events, and what kind of events occur in certain action sequences. There also are scene schemas that are characterized by spatial rather than temporal relations. Further kinds of schemas seem also to play a decisive role. Drawing upon considerations from schema and script theory, I will focus on some concrete examples of pictorial narration, more specifically depictions of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, where narrative schema structures become involved and, indeed, the comprehensibility of the pictures as such presuppose mental script representations.

scholarly journals Selectively Interfering With Intrusive but Not Voluntary Memories of a Trauma Film: Accounting for the Role of Associative Memory

2021 ◽  
pp. 216770262199831
Author(s):  
Alex Lau-Zhu ◽  
Richard N. Henson ◽  
Emily A. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Disorders ◽  
Traumatic Event ◽  
Emotional Memory ◽  
Control Procedure ◽  
Witness Testimony ◽  
Intrusive Memories ◽  
Therapeutic Benefits ◽  
Selective Interference ◽  
Intrusive Memory

Intrusive memories of a traumatic event can be reduced by a subsequent interference procedure, seemingly sparing voluntary memory for that event. This selective-interference effect has potential therapeutic benefits (e.g., for emotional disorders) and legal importance (e.g., for witness testimony). However, the measurements of intrusive memory and voluntary memory typically differ in the role of associations between a cue and the emotional memory “hotspots.” To test this, we asked participants to watch a traumatic film followed by either an interference procedure (reminder plus Tetris) or control procedure (reminder only). Measurement of intrusions (using a laboratory task) and voluntary memory (recognition for film stills) were crossed with the presence or absence of associative cues. The reminder-plus-Tetris group exhibited fewer intrusions despite comparable recognition memory, replicating the results of prior studies. Note that this selective interference did not appear to depend on associative cues. This involuntary versus voluntary memory dissociation for emotional material further supports separate-trace memory theories and has applied advantages.

The modernization of information services in the People's Republic of China

1981 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 227-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.P. Broadbent
Keyword(s):  
National Development ◽  
Information Storage And Retrieval ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Information Storage ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Storage And Retrieval ◽  
Modern Information ◽  
Role Of Information

China has suffered from over a decade of turmoil which has prevented the development of modern information ser vices. Present policy stresses the role of information storage and retrieval in national development. Apart from technical and political constraints, China faces a serious handicap with its unique written language, where the 5000 plus characters needed to express scientific and technical concepts are too large to be handled cost-effectively by present computers. This report outlines ways in which China is currently attempt ing to meet these problems and provide for modern informa tion services by the end of the decade.

The Axial Age, Axiality, and the Missionary Enterprise

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-72
Author(s):  
David Lindenfeld
Keyword(s):  
Recent Literature ◽  
World History ◽  
Memory Storage ◽  
External Memory ◽  
Broad Perspective ◽  
The Third ◽  
Axial Age ◽  
Third Stage ◽  
Brain Culture

This article reviews recent literature on the Axial Age as a phase of world history and seeks to illuminate the role of Christian missionaries as part of this broad perspective. Introduced by Karl Jaspers in 1949, the concept has attracted attention from scholars interested in human development. The cognitive psychologist Merlin Donald views it as the third stage of “brain-culture co-evolution,” which draws on the external memory storage that literacy provides. I argue that missionaries have been central agents in conveying such stored knowledge to non-axial cultures.

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