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Hello everyone. As part of my assesment on cognitive processes during the second year of my undergraduate degree I try to investigate if memories perceived as flashbulb memories (as defined by Brown and Kulik, 1977) could actually be false memories that have been altered in such a way to fit with the personal schemas of the person that recollects it. 

For example, during the recollection of an earthquake, someone recollects his dog barking before the earthquake, even though he did not have a dog until a year after the earthquake. The dog becomes present during the reconstruction processes that fit into the earthquake schema: dogs bark before an earthquake.

Is there any relevant research connecting flashbulb and false memories? What is your percepective on this issue?

Thank you in advance for your time. 

I am conducting a study into the effects of evaluation anxiety on working memory task performance. I have an Independent variable, the task which the individual will complete, observed v unobserved, and the same people complete both tasks, a dependent variable, the scores on the memory task in each condition, and also a covariable, score on the Liebowitz social anxiety scale. I did also include memory but this is not something I want in the main analysis but just to compare the means with anxiety score afterwards. Which test should I use? I have been told by my supervisor a one way within ss ANCOVA is the correct way, but I am not sure. Clarification on this would be greatly appreciated. Below I include the analysis I have run. Thank you in advance.

Scopolamine induced amnesia, memory enhancement plants

I am searching for a good topic in Dynamic RAM for my research practice/project in VLSI Design domain. I want to work on outer peripheral circuitry for low power applications (Not into device level i.e structure and composition ).

Constitutive (or global) costs of learning are paid by individuals with genetically high-learning ability, whether or not they actually exercise this ability.The process of learning itself may also impose additional costs reflecting the time, energy and other resources used. This hypothesis predicts that an individual who is exercising its learning ability should show a reduction in some fitness component(s), relative to an individual of the same genotype who does not have to learn.

Although I recognize the flaws that have been established with respect to MMSE scores, many brain banks or centers without a standard battery rely on MMSE as the more commonly described test during neurologic examination of patient's cognition. If you are revieweing a grant or paper, do you find yourself biased to the proposal or results if cognitive impairment is reported using MMSE?

I am working on A2RAM design optimization aiming on increasing its retention time in my Master research in my initial stages. I want to know which parameter should i check to know that my device memory is working fine. The drain current i am getting is also quite small.

Any help will be appreciated. a little discussion on it with a senior fellow will be quite helpful for brain storming and put me on the right track.

Regards.

I believe that van Dijk's contribution to the relevance of the context in CDA - Critical Discourse Analysis can be potentially explored in social memory research. For this reason, I am looking for references that can support or refute my thesis.

Generally, in zero-field-cooled (ZFC) process, with a stop during cooling under a zero field, if a dip shows up upon reheating it is attributed to memory effect and in a similar way for the Field Cooled (FC) process also. Can a ferromagnetic system possess memory effect or a memory effect is a characteristic of glassy dynamics of a system only?

Is there any recent update that tries to explain why recollection (a process that is supposed to have "additional" retrieval of contextual information) is frequently found to be faster than familiarity. The only paper that I remember talking about this is Moscovitch 2008, who talked about a fast and a slow recollection. But I have been partly away from the field of memory research. Few weeks ago I also heard a presentation from a guy who published in J. Neurosci and did not have a clue how to explain the paradox of faster recollection than familiarity resspones (the remember/know procedure was used in his study). So this seems to me still an open question, with researchers frequently not even taking in account reaction times.

Any insight of recent publications dealing trying to explain timing differences between recollection and familiarity?