Participants of the annual World Memory Championships regularly demonstrate
extraordinary memory feats, such as memorising the order of 52 playing cards in 20 s or�…

This chapter sketches the scientific concepts of ability, expertise, and their relationship to
adult development. It then addresses age-related changes in cognitive processes and their�…

Studies comparing gray matter (GM) volume of schizophrenic patients with or without
auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) to that of normal controls remain controversial. This�…

The maintenance of serial order in verbal working memory (WM) is a major unsolved puzzle
in cognitive science. Here we review a series of studies showing that serial order in verbal�…

It has been confirmed that some kinds of what are called memory strategies dramatically
improve the performance of memory recall. However, there has been no direct research to�…

Agrowing trend in graduate and undergrad-uate medical education is to minimize the use of
traditional lectures. 1, 2 Medical schools advertise their departure from lectures and�…

Within the last two decades, the field of cognitive neuroscience has begun to thrive, with
technological advances that non-invasively measure human brain activity. This is the first�…

In general, encoding of neutral material includes the context in which the respective material
is learned. The effect of emotional context on successfully encoded neutral material has�…

Abstract Individuals possessing a Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM)
demonstrate an exceptional ability to recall their own past, excelling most when dates from�…

In the present work we present an overview of experimental findings corroborating olfactory
imagery observations with the visual and auditory modalities. Overall, the results indicate�…