11th and 12th Grade - IB Psychology: Memory

"The untold story of the fight over the legacy of “H.M.” — the patient who revolutionized the science of memory."

Article about repressed memories, including loftus

Radiolab podcast on memory and forgetting: "learn how true memories can be obliterated, and false ones added"

Article about false memories of crimes

"A study made headlines in 2015 for claiming that 70% of people could be convinced they’d committed a false crime. Now critics are pushing back on the study"

Debate over implanting false memories

Recreation of a murder and a simulated police investigation to see how eyewitness testimony is gathered.

"In a neuroscience breakthrough, the duo pioneered a real-life version of Inception"

Here's a game to recap neuroplasticity, localisation etc.

"Global study finds the more episodes of depression, the greater the reduction in hippocampus size, but it was very likely damage was reversible"

This links well with what learn about how the brain grows (neuroplasticity).

Overview of Bartlett (1932) War of Ghosts Study

Podcast about Bartlett’s experiment

Brain mapping tool from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Here's a game to recap neuroplasticity, localisation etc.

Article on the hippocampus and how stress affects it

"Work with H.M. established fundamental principles about how memory functions are organized in the brain."

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"His ability to function without so many of the key brain regions previously considered vital for consciousness raises some major questions about existing theories regarding how the brain works and the mechanisms underlying our awareness."

"A decade-long study shows that our vivid memories of where, when, and how we found out about September 11th may often be wrong."

Journal article: "It is suggested that observed differences in digit span norms between language communities might be due to differences in pronunciation speed for numbers in the respective languages and that the latter might also affect capacity for mental manipulation of numbers."