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  Riddhika Parmar Week 16 Memory and the Five Senses Everyone has probably experienced how our five senses can impact memory. For instance, eating a familiar food, hearing a favorite song, or smelling a particular aroma can surface a significant memory. Sometimes the memory can recount a detailed scene, while other times we experience déjà vu, unconsciously recognizing similar stimuli. The hippocampus and sensory centers work together to create these memories.    Sensory memory is divided into subsystems (or sensory registers): Iconic (seeing) — like seeing an ant walking on a wall Echoic (hearing) — like hearing a barking dog Haptic (touching) — like feeling a raindrop on your head Gustatory (tasting) — like tasting your mom’s food Olfactory (smelling) — like smelling chocolate chip cookies baking in the oven Our iconic memory is important, and to take care of it , the 20-20-20 rule (20-second break from your screen every 20 minutes, focusing on an object 20 feet away) has been prove

Horrible Memory and Human Society What would change if everyone had a horrible memory? You may think that your memory is awful—especially after the pandemic—but human memory is excellent compared to other species. According to Magnus Enquist , a researcher at Stockholm University, humans have a “superior capacity to deal with sequential information” relative to other species. Our memory capacity allows us to do many things, from creating large, organized societies to engineering highly complex computationally-powered devices that have led to the destruction of every other species.  Our memory gave us a competitive advantage compared to other primitive hominids. Hunting, the only effective form of acquiring food until the Agricultural Revolution, is heavily memory-dependent. Remembering which snakes are the least dangerous, which bison areas are the best place to shoot arrows, and when the best time is to find the highest masses of fish was vital to early hunter-gatherers. A lower-capac

Carolin Pan Benedetti APENG 18 May 2022 How Memory Ties in with Murder Recently I listened to a podcast which discussed the case of Hae Min Lee, a Korean girl who was murdered at 18 years old in 1999. The case was well forgotten until the podcast in 2014. Though the case is still not completely solved, Hae Min Lee’s ex-boyfriend Adnan Syed was a primary suspect and convicted for first degree murder.  When Adnan was asked what he did the day of Hae’s murder, he claimed to have not remembered as it was just a “normal day” for him. However, when Adnan’s friend Jay Wilds was questioned, Jay confessed saying that Adnan had strangled Hae and he helped Adnan bury her in a shallow 6 inch grave. Later on, another one of Adnan’s classmates, Asia McClain, stated that Adnan was at the library with her at the time Hae was said to have been killed. The three alibis did not match up and the investigators were truly confused.  Not only does truthfulness play an important role in this case, but memory

 Manipulating Memories smithsonianmag.com          In some of my past blogs, I discussed the detriments of remembering too much and the importance of forgetting selectively. However, there is a middle ground between completely retaining or losing a memory. In fact, almost all of our memories suffer from either abstraction or distortion, and the manipulating of memories, inadvertently and not, can occur almost every time we attempt to recall a memory.       Dr. Roy Dings and Professor Albert Newen from Ruhr-University describe the remembering of past memories as an "episodic memory system," split into exposure to the stimulus, processing of the memory with background knowledge or predilections, and the processing and association of the final memory recalled. Each of these three steps has significant room for manipulation that can affect not only individual memories, but general perceptions and correlating memories.      The first process in recalling a memory is often a stimul

For all this quarter, we have discussed the ins-and-outs of human memory, computer memory, and memory disorders. So, for my very last blog of this year, I wanted to talk about something not mentioned—plant memory. Yes, you read this right. Plant Memory. If you are not researcher Monica Gagliano (the researcher who discovered this phenomenon), you likely thought plants could not remember anything, like me. Robert Krulwich, the author of this National Geographic article , thought the same thing. I was stunned reading his article, when I realized that in one case, plants could remember.    This plant is called the Mimosa Pudica , or “the sensitive plant.” Krulwich attached this YouTube video (which has 4 million views as of writing this), and it was just phenomenal to watch. Basically, this plant curls up at any touch or contact. Whether it is a small nudge or a large jerk, the plant, including its leaves and stem, curls up. Researcher Monica Gagliano did a test using this plant. Gaglian

An Unforgettable Memory                Memories. The first thing I thought about when I saw the word ‘memories’ was when I got lucky, my dog. The struggle that came with getting my dog made the efforts so much more worth it than simply just getting a dog handed to me when I asked for it.                 It all started off in 6th grade when my teacher brought two of his dogs to school on a regular basis. We would have so much fun with the dog, playing with it, dressing it up and just staying back during our breaks and after school to play fetch with the dog. The smile his dog gave me was something I wanted to feel every minute of the day. That couldn’t be the case if I didn’t have a dog though. I always found dogs fascinating and dreamed of having one when I grew older but I never imagined getting one until I graduated high school and was living by myself. That being said, when my teacher brought his dogs to school, it just gave me a sudden urge to get a dog as I feel like it gave me a