Der Spiegel-Online mit einem interessanten Beitrag zum Thema »Falsche Erinnerungen«. Das autobiografische Gedächtnis ist demnach sehr unzuverlässig und Wissenschaftlern gelingt es gar Erinnerungen an nicht stattgefundene Ereignisse zu erzeugen. Zitat:

Durch Bilder lassen sich Erinnerungen besonders leicht durcheinanderbringen, weil sich die für das Visuelle zuständigen Verarbeitungssysteme im Gehirn mit jenen überlappen, die bei Fantasien aktiv werden.

[via Reinhardt im Netz]

»A mnemonics and memory improvement resource«

[via digg.com]

The way the brain stores new, conscious information such as a first kiss or a childhood home is strongly linked to the way the human brain stores unconscious information, researchers at Yale report this month in an article featured on the cover of Neuron.
This finding by Marvin Chun, professor in the Department of Psychology, and his team contrasts with the belief that all explicit (conscious) memory, and implicit (unconscious) memory, has distinct neural bases. The belief that the two types of memory are distinct has been illustrated by examples, including amnesiac patients with damage to the hippocampus and associated brain structures who have severely impaired explicit memory but intact implicit memory.
Instead of looking at how the storage of the two types of memory differs, Chun, Nicholas Turk-Browne, and Do-Yoon Yi focused on the common elements between them. Sixteen men and women viewed 120 photographs and answered which photos were taken indoors or outdoors. Each image was then shown once again. The study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to record brain activity during the test.