This article presents two studies that investigated the impact of the retrieval of self-defining memories on individuals' sense of self. Participants recalled positive and/or negative self-defining memories, rated memory characteristics and completed measures focusing on different self-aspects. Study 1 found that participants reported higher state self-esteem after recalling a positive memory t...

Hebbian hetero-associative learning is inherently asymmetric. Storing a forward association from pattern A to pattern B enables the recalling of pattern B given pattern A. This, in general, does not allow the recalling of pattern A given pattern B. The forward association between A and B will tend to be stronger than the backward association between B and A. In this paper it is described how th...

Current research on product recalls suggests that recalls present significant challenges to managers and affect organizational performance. However, very little is known about the effect of product recalls on organizational learning. In this paper, we argue that product recalls help organizational learning and reduces future recalls. Specifically, we contend that product recall experience of va...

The combination of evolutionary algorithms and ANN has been a recent interest in the field of research. Hopfield model is a type of recurrent neural network which has been widely studied for the purpose of associative memories. In the present work, this Hopfield Model of feedback neural networks has been studied with Monte Carlo adaptation learning rule and one evolutionary searching algorithm ...

The ability to selectively remember important information is a critical function of memory. Although previous research has suggested that older adults are impaired in a variety of episodic memory tasks, recent work has demonstrated that older adults can selectively remember high-value information. In the present research, we examined how younger and older adults selectively remembered words wit...