Anterograde amnesia is when brain trauma curtails or stops someone's ability to form new memories. The first, retrograde amnesia, occurs where you forget things you knew before the brain trauma. Amnesia is usually the result of some kind of trauma to the brain, such as a head injury, a stroke, a brain tumor, or chronic alcoholism. To understand how we remember things, it's incredibly helpful to study how we forget- which is why neuroscientists study amnesia, the loss of memories or the ability to learn. Once you've learned to ride a bicycle, you're not likely to forget. But nondeclarative memories stick around more easily. It takes less time to memorize a country's capital than it does to learn how to play the violin. In general, declarative memories are easier to form than nondeclarative memories. Nondeclarative memories also can shape your body's unthinking responses, like salivating at the sight of your favorite food or tensing up when you see something you fear.Ī memory matching game pits your ability to remember. Do you play an instrument or ride a bicycle? Those are your procedural memories at work. These include procedural memories, which your body uses to remember the skills you've learned. Nondeclarative memory, also called implicit memory, unconsciously builds up. Others consist of past events you've experienced, such as a childhood birthday. Some of these memories are facts or “common knowledge”: things like the capital of Portugal (Lisbon), or the number of cards in a standard deck of playing cards (52). Declarative memory, also called explicit memory, consists of the sorts of memories you experience consciously. Whenever you say a phone number to yourself over and over to remember it, you're using your working memory.Īnother way to categorize memories is by the subject of the memory itself, and whether you are consciously aware of it. We also have a working memory, which lets us keep something in our minds for a limited time by repeating it. Short-term memories last seconds to hours, while long-term memories last for years. Humans retain different types of memories for different lengths of time. So, how do we hold on to everything we've learned and experienced? Memories. Analysis and interpretation of texts (including written and visual material).ģ.From the moment we are born, our brains are bombarded by an immense amount of information about ourselves and the world around us.Subject-specific practical and intellectual skills and attributes. The module concerns different approaches to memory across diverse disciplines and media.Ģ.Creative project (40%) & Reflective analysis (800 words) (20%)Īccess the online reading list system Intended learning outcomes.Towards the end the second hour of seminars will be used for group projects. Workshops can take place in archives, at V&A educational space, at McManus, etc. There are 11 weeks of continuous teaching in semester 2.Ģ one hour lectures a week and one 2 hour workshop.Ģ2 hours of lectures and 22 hours of workshop. The composition of the team is adjusted every year. The module is team-taught by academic staff in the School of Humanities. Working in a small group, you will have an opportunity to create your own Memory project on a topic of your choosing. It encourages you to make connections between the archive, historical and philosophical approaches, representations in fiction, comics, art, music and creative writing. This module allows you to explore the selective remembering of the past in the present, and the importance of why and how certain elements are contested and forgotten. Memory is connected with suppression, repression and censorship, as well as creation and imagination. Rather than a stable repository, Memory is understood to be unreliable, conflicted, contested, transitory, and political. Recent thinking has focussed on the nature of personal, collective and cultural memory as shapers of individuals and society. This module centres on Memory as a key concept in the Humanities. Highly recommended for all new Humanities students.
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