Publications related to Testing effect

First-person view of one’s body in immersive virtual reality: Influence on episodic memory

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Andrea Serino, Jane Aspell, Robin Mange, Baptiste Gauthier, Lucie Bréchet

Episodic memories (EMs) are recollections of contextually rich and personally relevant past events. EM has been linked to the sense of self, allowing one to mentally travel back in subjective time and re-experience past events. However, the sense of self h ...

2019

Eyetracking shows the source of age-related differences in prospective memory: Older adults monitor well, but fail to take action

Michael Herzog, Marc Michael Lauffs

Older adults often perform worse than younger adults on prospective memory tasks, but the exact mechanisms remain elusive. Participants had to indicate whether a letter in the center of gaze is a vocal or a consonant (ongoing task). The prospective memory ...

2017

Learning-Induced Gene Expression in the Hippocampus Reveals a Role of Neuron-Astrocyte Metabolic Coupling in Long Term Memory

Pierre Magistretti, Igor Allaman, Sylvain Eric Lengacher, Gabriele Grenningloh, Monika Tadi

We examined the expression of genes related to brain energy metabolism and particularly those encoding glia (astrocyte)-specific functions in the dorsal hippocampus subsequent to learning. Context-dependent avoidance behavior was tested in mice using the s ...

Public Library of Science2015

Coupled neural associative memories

Mohammad Amin Shokrollahi, Amin Karbasi, Amir Hesam Salavati

We propose a novel architecture to design a neural associative memory that is capable of learning a large number of patterns and recalling them later in presence of noise. It is based on dividing the neurons into local clusters and parallel plains, an arch ...

IEEE2013

Noise-enhanced associative memories

Mohammad Amin Shokrollahi, Amin Karbasi, Amir Hesam Salavati

Recent advances in associative memory design through structured pattern sets and graph-based inference algorithms have allowed reliable learning and recall of an exponential number of patterns. Although these designs correct external errors in recall, they ...

2013

The antidepressant agomelatine blocks the adverse effects of stress on memory and enables spatial learning to rapidly increase neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) expression in the hippocampus of rats

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez

Agomelatine, a novel antidepressant with established clinical efficacy, acts as a melatonin receptor agonist and 5-HT(2C) receptor antagonist. As stress is a significant risk factor in the development of depression, we sought to determine if chronic agomel ...

Cambridge University Press2009