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Degree in Psychology (UCM), Master in Neuroscience (UAM), Master in Neuropsychological Assessment and Rehabilitation (UCJC) and Master in General Health Psychology (UNED). PhD candidate in Psychologywith thesis on memory, emotion and executive functions (UCM). Writer of specialized articles and divulgation articles on neurological disorders and neuropsychology for the blog of the cognitive neurorehabilitation platform NeuronUP.
Confabulations can be defined as false memories due to a retrieval problem, where the patient is unaware that he/she is confabulating and has the belief that the memory is true[1]. In a previous post, the classification, neuropathology and underlying cognitive mechanisms that contribute to the appearance of confabulations were briefly explained. In this second part, the major neuropsychological …
We are used to reading that nonverbal language—our gestures and body postures—reveals our mood or psychological state, something we reflect even in our metaphorical way of speaking when using expressions such as “to carry the weight of the world on one’s shoulders”, used in reference to a feeling of worry or responsibility, and “to hold …
Confabulation, sometimes called “honest lying” is a cognitive phenomenon that can be seen in several acquired neurological conditions as well as in some psychiatric disorders. Although the term confabulation is currently used to refer to false perceptions of body states or the external world (non-mnesic confabulations), it has traditionally referred to false products of the memory (mnesic confabulations) …
Have you heard of Tourette syndrome? It is considered a rare disease based on its prevalence in the population. However, studies at the international level indicate that the disorder is actually much more common than previously thought [1,2]. Given that , June 7, is European Tourette Syndrome Awareness Day, today’s post is dedicated to debunking common myths …
How many times have you gone to the fridge or the closet looking for something specific, and even though you had what you were looking for right in front of you, you didn’t see it? If this ever happened to you, you were probably surprised to find it where you had not seen it before: …
Errorless learning (EL) is a commonly used technique in memory rehabilitation given the advantage it has for patients with amnesia over traditional learning, which allows them to make errors and takes advantage of the mistakes. However, there is evidence that EL outcomes may vary significantly across patients depending on various factors such as injury severity, the …
Embodied cognition is a concept involving the claim that states of the body modify states of the mind [1]. It has been observed that body posture can affect, at least briefly, our subjective feelings of power, our physiology with regards to hormone levels, and also our behavior [2].
One distinction we usually make when talking about different human memory systems is between working memory and short-term memory. In the existing literature, some authors consider short-term memory to be a subset of working memory, whereas others argue for the inverse relationship, and finallythere are those who use both terms interchangeablybecause they see both as the …
Have you ever found yourself struggling to understand an image without being able to? Have you tried perhaps to find some similarity between what you see and some well-known object, in an attempt to make sense of that image that you had never seen before? You may have experienced this sensation for a moment, for example, when looking at a magnetic resonance or an ultrasound image for the first time; or when looking at an abstract painting whose title induces you to strive towards recognizing a specific object in it.
