login
Become a member
Quick Registration
Full Registration Benefits -
Free Homepages for Doctors
Free Homepages for Hospitals
Free Homepages for Medical Conference
Free Homepages for NGO's
Personal Health Record Creation
Access to all Medical Slides
Access to all Jobs & Products Sale
Remember Distant Events To Block Out Current Disturbing Thoughts
It is known that when you are daydreaming, it becomes difficult to remember what was going on before you stopped paying attention.
Psychologists have known for a while that context is important to remembering. If you leave the place where a memory was made - its context - it will be harder for you to recall the memory.
Previous studies had also found that thinking about something else - daydreaming or mind wandering - blocks access to memories of the recent past.
Psychological scientists Peter F. Delaney and Lili Sahakyan of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Colleen M. Kelley and Carissa A. Zimmerman of Florida State University wanted to know if the content of your daydreams affects your ability to access a recently-acquired memory.
For one experiment, each participant looked at a list of words as they appeared on a computer screen, one at a time.
Then they were told to think either about home - where they'd been that morning - or about their parents' house - where they hadn't been in several weeks. Next, the participant was shown a second list of words.
At the end of the test, they had to recall as many of the words from the two lists as possible.
|
|
|
 Comment & Contribute
|
Medwonders Health Network
- Health News Index
- News Quick Links
| News Categories: |
| » | Cardio-Pulmonary Function can be a Strong Indicator for Survival Chances of Breast Cancer Patients |
| » | Post Surgery Will the Tumour Return? New Breast Cancer Test to Predict Exactly |
| » | Scientists Develop Compound That Triggers Cancer Cell Death |
| » | Iraqi National Hopes to Find Affordable Treatment for His Cancer in India |
| » | New Technique can Help Doctors Detect Pancreatic Cancer |
| More Cancer News | |
|
