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A major Exploratorium exhibition and website developed by the Exploratorium, explores the biological, psychological, and cultural aspects of memory--from personal experiences to breakthroughs in cognitive science.

The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information by George A. Miller originally published in The Psychological Review, 1956, vol. 63, pp. 81-97 (reproduced here, with the author's permission, by Stephen Malinowski) Table of Contents Information measurement Absolute judgments of unidimensional stimuli Absolute judgments of multidimensional ...

This page, by Jim Hopper, Ph.D., presents scientific research and scholarly resources addressing amnesia and delayed recall for memories of childhood sexual abuse.

The photos | cotton's wrongful conviction | interviews | faqs | re-evaluating procedures | song of an innocent man | links | tapes & transcripts | reactions | explore frontline | wgbh | pbs online New Content Copyright 1998 PBS and WGBH/FRONTLINE ...

This Web site brings together the extensive and growing evidence of cases ignored or overlooked by skeptics. The project began as a letter to PBS. That letter described how an undergraduate Research Assistant at Brown University found half a dozen corroborated cases of recovered memory in just a few hours of electronic database searching. That modest research effort has evolved into this Web site.

Information from APA s Public Affairs Office to help you understand how repressed, recovered, or suggested memories of childhood abuse may occur and what you can do if you or a family member is concerned about a childhood memory.

Eyewitness Welcome to my home page, which is also a rescource for those interested in eyewitness memory issues. Scroll down first, then use your cursor to find links and download anything that interests you. Chicago police so readily believe eyewitness identification that thay charged a filler with murder! click here NEW! An analysis of the 100+ DNA exoneration cases click here Click here to see ...

D j vu is an uncanny feeling or illusion of having already seen or experienced something that is being experienced for the first time. If we assume that the experience is actually of a remembered event, then d j vu probably occurs because an original experience was not fully attended to and elaborately encoded.

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This study shows there are at least four specific subtypes of d j vu corresponding to diagnostic categories and that such phenomenological experiences may be used in diagnosis and management.

This site presents materials on issues surrounding the hotly debated topics of Repressed/Recovered Memory and their therapies (RMT), Multiple Personality Disorder/Dissociative Identity Disorder (MPD/DID), and accusations of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA), Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) and Mind Control (MC) ...

Psychology 340: Memory and Eyewitness Testimony The course syllabus. The current schedule. Take-home exam questions. Web site(s) of the week. Visit the College of Wooster Home Page Last updated: 18 April 1997 Gary Gillund ggillund@acs.wooster.edu ...

An article about current memory research, originally published in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

Outline of sensory storage including illustrations and quicktime movie demonstrations.

Connections to Related Web Sites False and Repressed Memory Connections A site that argues for the reality of repressed memories. Mental Health Net's abuse resources. A write-up of Loftus' Lost in a Mall study. A couple of lawyers provide an overview of why they think some people have been falsely accused due to false memories. Another report of a false /recovered memory. An argument for the ...

Some thoughts about generalizing the role that confidence plays in the accuracy of eyewitness memory Ebbe B. Ebbesen University of California, San Diego November 3, 2000 In a relatively recent survey (Kassin, Ellsworth, & Smith, 1989), researchers in the area of eyewitness memory indicated that they believed that the relationship between witnesses' confidence in their identifications and the ...

Experimental psychology has much to offer in the current debate about memories for childhood abuse. However, laboratory scientists, with their enormous cognitive authority to define reality for the rest of the population, must be especially conservative when arguing that laboratory results on memory generalize to contested memories of abuse.