Remembering Cold Days

Remembering the Prolonged Cold of Winter

Plants have to cope with constantly changing conditions and need to respond to environmental stresses and seasonal changes in temperature and photoperiod. Alignment of their development with particular seasons requires memory mechanisms and an ability to integrate noisy temperature signals over long time scales. An increasingly well understood example of how seasonal changes influence developme...

The early days: remembering William S. Kroger, M.D.

Remembering remembering.

We developed a laboratory analogue of the "forgot-it-all-along" effect that J. W. Schooler, M. Bendiksen, and Z. Ambadar (1997) proposed for cases of "recovered memories" in which individuals had forgotten episodes of talking about the abuse when they were supposedly amnestic for it. In Experiment 1, participants studied homographs with disambiguating context words; in Test 1 they received stud...

Thermoregulation during cold exposure after several days of exhaustive exercise.

This study examined the hypothesis that several days of exhaustive exercise would impair thermoregulatory effector responses to cold exposure, leading to an accentuated core temperature reduction compared with exposure of the same individual to cold in a rested condition. Thirteen men (10 experimental and 3 control) performed a cold-wet walk (CW) for up to 6 h (6 rest-work cycles, each 1 h in d...

Remembering the Good Old Days: the Ottoman Nasihatname [Advice Letters] Literature of the 17th Century

This study analyses the Ottoman Nasihatname [Advice Letters] literature of the 17th century. This tradition had its roots mainly in the so-called mirror writers of the 10th century. The chapter explores the atmosphere which allowed mirror writers to produce their work. After outlining the peculiar features of this literature and its influence on the Ottomans, it concentrates on some of the text...