Dear all,
Professor Oliver Hardt (McGill Psychology) will be speaking in our first Cognitive Area Seminar of the Winter 2017 semester this Friday, January 13th, 3:30 - 5 PM (Room S3/4, Stewart Biology Building, 1205 Docteur Penfield Avenue).
His talk is titled, "How the Brain Forgets: Memory Interference and Decay."
For a full abstract, see below the dashed line. Please join us at this event! -------------------------------------------------
How the Brain Forgets: Memory Interference and Decay Professor Oliver Hardt, Department of Psychology, McGill University
Forgetting awaits most memories. Despite its prevalence, there is little agreement about genuine types of forgetting, nor about forgetting mechanisms. In an attempt to address this situation, I will present our recent research on the loss of short-term and long-term memories. (1) Short-term memories appear particularly sensitive to experiences that occur shortly after their acquisition. It has been proposed that these subsequent events interfere with memory stabilization and thus long-term retention. We will report results of a series of experiments that partly confirm this hypothesis, yet also demonstrate that short-term memories can benefit from subsequent encoding, which can prolong their retention, paradoxically even more so when both experiences are highly similar. (2) Based on the assumption that the brain promiscuously forms new long-term memories, we have suggested that a dedicated and well-regulated active decay mechanism systematically erases these mostly superfluous records of insignificant experiences. I will discuss several studies that identify neurobiological components of the active decay system and that provide empirical support for active decay theory.
Hello all,
Just a reminder that Professor Oliver Hardt (McGill Psychology) will be speaking in today's (Jan 13) Cognitive Brown Bag, 3:30 - 5 PM (Room S3/4, Stewart Biology Building, 1205 Docteur Penfield Avenue).
His talk is titled, "How the Brain Forgets: Memory Interference and Decay."
For a full abstract, see below the dashed line. Please join us at this event! -------------------------------------------------
How the Brain Forgets: Memory Interference and Decay Professor Oliver Hardt, Department of Psychology, McGill University
Forgetting awaits most memories. Despite its prevalence, there is little agreement about genuine types of forgetting, nor about forgetting mechanisms. In an attempt to address this situation, I will present our recent research on the loss of short-term and long-term memories. (1) Short-term memories appear particularly sensitive to experiences that occur shortly after their acquisition. It has been proposed that these subsequent events interfere with memory stabilization and thus long-term retention. We will report results of a series of experiments that partly confirm this hypothesis, yet also demonstrate that short-term memories can benefit from subsequent encoding, which can prolong their retention, paradoxically even more so when both experiences are highly similar. (2) Based on the assumption that the brain promiscuously forms new long-term memories, we have suggested that a dedicated and well-regulated active decay mechanism systematically erases these mostly superfluous records of insignificant experiences. I will discuss several studies that identify neurobiological components of the active decay system and that provide empirical support for active decay theory.
On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Anna Zamm anna.zamm@mail.mcgill.ca wrote:
Dear all,
Professor Oliver Hardt (McGill Psychology) will be speaking in our first Cognitive Area Seminar of the Winter 2017 semester this Friday, January 13th, 3:30 - 5 PM (Room S3/4, Stewart Biology Building, 1205 Docteur Penfield Avenue).
His talk is titled, "How the Brain Forgets: Memory Interference and Decay."
For a full abstract, see below the dashed line. Please join us at this event!
How the Brain Forgets: Memory Interference and Decay Professor Oliver Hardt, Department of Psychology, McGill University
Forgetting awaits most memories. Despite its prevalence, there is little agreement about genuine types of forgetting, nor about forgetting mechanisms. In an attempt to address this situation, I will present our recent research on the loss of short-term and long-term memories. (1) Short-term memories appear particularly sensitive to experiences that occur shortly after their acquisition. It has been proposed that these subsequent events interfere with memory stabilization and thus long-term retention. We will report results of a series of experiments that partly confirm this hypothesis, yet also demonstrate that short-term memories can benefit from subsequent encoding, which can prolong their retention, paradoxically even more so when both experiences are highly similar. (2) Based on the assumption that the brain promiscuously forms new long-term memories, we have suggested that a dedicated and well-regulated active decay mechanism systematically erases these mostly superfluous records of insignificant experiences. I will discuss several studies that identify neurobiological components of the active decay system and that provide empirical support for active decay theory.
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Anna Zamm