Memory Articles

I. Infant Memory
1. An experiment performed by Carolyn Rovee-Collier seemed to prove that infants have long-term memories.
2. The experiment says that it proves that infants know the difference between one mobile and another random mobile based on the level and timing of a kick. Maybe the mobile they tested with was bright and made the baby excited or maybe it was coincidence.
3. and 4. This article simply reinforces the lesson about infant memory from the textbook.
5. A section of the chapter on memory discussed infant memory and amnesia similarly to the article.

II. Brain Size
1. An experiment sheds some light on why some people who have Alzheimer's Disease in their brain do not show symptoms: a large hippocampus.
2. While the results are promising, the experiment was performed with a mere 12 infected people who didn't show symptoms and only 23 previously diagnosed Alzheimer's patients.
3. The hippocampus is more than a funny word: it does, like, stuff.
4. The article cleared up any misonceptions I had about the function of the hippocampus.
5. The hippocampus was previously revealed to have been important to the function of a person's memory.

III. Estrogen
1. Through an experiment with rats, it has been determined that estrogen helps memory and does other positive things for the brain.
2. The rats hat low estrogen to begin with, so the researchers may have just brought the estrogen back to normal levels, explaining why the addition of estrogen helped.
3. Estrogen is detrimental to all other parts of the body other than the brain.
4. Uh-uh
5. This article, like the book, references the hippocampus in regard to to memory and talks about neurological pathways and such.