News tagged with semantic memory
When the zebra loses its stripes
The capacity to remember that a zebra has stripes, or that a giraffe is a four-legged mammal, is known as semantic memory. It allows us to assign meaning to words and to recall general knowledge and concepts that we have ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 20, 2010 |
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What's his name again? How celebrity monikers can help us remember
Famous mugs do more than prompt us into buying magazines, according to new Université de Montréal research. In the December issue of the Canadian Journal on Aging, a team of scientists explain how the abilit ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 18, 2009 |
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Impaired kidney function linked to cognitive decline in elderly
A new study published in the medical journal Neurology suggests that impaired kidney function is a risk factor for cognitive decline in old age.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Effects of disease severity on autobiographical memory in semantic dementia revealed in new study
In a study conducted by the Laboratory of Neuropsychology of the Université de Caen Basse-Normandie and published by Elsevier in the April 2009 issue of Cortex, researchers studied for the first time autobiographical memory ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 02, 2009 |
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