If hearing an old song or getting a whiff of freshly sharpened pencils instantly carries you back to high school, you’re ...

Sensory memory refers to very short-term memories about perceptions of the world through the five senses of sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste. A fraction of the information captured in ...

Fig.1: Schematic illustration of tactile signal transmission. Skin contacts with an object and transmits the sensation information to somatosensory area of brain through afferent nerves to form ...

Memory problems have long been considered the primary hallmark of dementia, but a team of researchers is now challenging this ...

In a paper published in Communications Psychology, a research team at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona set out to determine whether sensory stimulation can also affect visual working memory ...

If you consider how long a memory lasts, for example, there appear to be at least three subtypes of storage: sensory, short term and long term. Memories can also be distinguished by the type ...

Psychologists talk about different kinds of memory: sensory memory, working memory and long-term memory. Going, going, gone Sensory memory is the direct pathway to the mind. It is the impression ...