BACKGROUND When people are asked to adjust the color of familiar objects such as fruits until they appear achromatic, the subjective gray points of the objects are shifted away from the physical gray points in a direction opposite to the memory color (memory color effect). It is still unclear whether the discrepancy between memorized and actual colors of objects is dependent on the familiarity ...

Expertise in a specific domain can lead to exceptional memory performance, such that experts can typically encode and retrieve large amounts of domain-related information. For example, chess experts can reproduce the exact locations of chess pieces from a game that is in progress (Chase & Simon, 1973; de Groot, 1966), baseball experts can recall large amounts of baseball-related information (Vo...

during the 3 years before ECT were impaired, but memories acquired before that time were not affected. The results therefore appear to confirm the hypothesis, originally formulatedby Ribot (12), that the susceptibility of a memory to disruption is inversely proportional to its age. The validity of this conclusion depends, of course, on how well the remote memory test satisfies the requirements ...

When you and your friends get old, gray, wrinkly, it is likely that some of will end up having memory problems. The most common illness the called Alzheimer’s disease. causes difficulties with remembering names friends, jokes were just told, or even well-trodden way home. Sounds awful, right? As there currently no cure for disease, researchers are trying hard to find ways prevent it. A healthy ...

Pictorial and verbal encoding in short-term memory of geometric figures and their names was studied in preschool children, using reaction time to a same-different judgment task. Children, like adults, were able to encode either pictures or names in either a pictorial or verbal fashion, as appropriate and with equal facility, although responses to second pictures were faster than responses to se...

In this paper we propose a trainable method for extracting Chinese entity names and their relations. We view the entire problem as series of classification problems and employ memory-based learning (MBL) to resolve them. Preliminary results show that this method is efficient, flexible and promising to achieve better performance than other existing methods.

The article studies naming conventions among Germanic immigrants who settled in the Eastern Roman empire during Migration Period. author uses information from both narrative and epigraphic sources. Many immigrants, finding themselves a cultural environment alien to them, sought preserve their own identities. As means of maintaining family memory, some Goths lived Byzantium gave children names t...