Eye See You
The brain's interpretation of raw sensory inputs.
What is "perception"?
A false, but subjectively compelling memory.
What is "memory illusion"?
The inability of adults to retrieve accurate memories before an early age.
What is "infantile amnesia"?
The act of studying large increments over a brief amount of time.
What is "massed practice"?
Reactivation or reconstruction of experiences from our memory stores.
What is "retrieval"?
The process of converting an external energy or substance into electrical activity within neurons.
What is "transduction"?
The creation of fictitious memories by providing misleading information about an event after it takes place.
What is the "misinformation effect"?
An emotional memory that is extraordinarily vivid and detailed.
What is a "flashbulb memory"?
The act of studying information in small increments over time.
What is "distributed practice"?
Generating previously remembered information.
What is "recall"?
A specialized cell responsible for converting external stimuli into neural activity for a specific sensory system.
What is a "sensory receptor"?
Imagining an event inflates confidence in the likelihood that it occurred.
What is "imagination inflation"?
The inability to encode new memories from our experiences.
What is "Anterograde Amnesia"?
The process of getting information into our memory banks.
What is "encoding"?
Reaquiring knowledge that we'd previously learned, but largely forgotten over time.
What is "relearning"?
A condition in which people experience cross-model sensations.
What is "synesthesia"?
Someone thinks they had a memory that actually happened to someone else.
What is "cryptomnesia"?
The loss of memories from our past.
What is "retrograde amnesia"?
The gradual strengthening of the connections among neurons from repetitive stimulation.
What is "Long-Term Potentiation"?
Selecting previously remembered information from an array of options.
What is "recognition"?
The smallest change in the intensity of a stimulus that we can detect.
Procedures that encourage patients to recall memories that may or may not have taken place.
What is "suggestive memory techniques"?
Part of the brain that can cause anterograde amnesia if damaged.
What is the "hippocampus"?
The phenomenon of remembering something better when the conditions under which we retrieve information are similar to the conditions under which we encoded it.
What is "Encoding Specificity"?
A hint that makes it easier for us to recall information.
What is a "retrieval cue"?