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This week we publish a new activity for adults thanks to the suggestion of one of our clients who works at a Brain Injury Rehabilitation Center. It is called Sticky Notes in Order, an activity to work episodic memory. “We do this activity manually with actual sticky notes, but we think it could be more …
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 …
Human adaptation to environmental demands is based on memory, one basic cognitive ability. In fact, this cognitive process is studied across different fields of knowledge, not only psychology. Since the unitary concept of memory—which defined memory as a unitary, indivisible system—was abandoned, research studies, undertaken in different disciplines and methodologies, are increasingly exploring different mnemonic systems. These have been collected and classified, both in classical and current approaches, according to two main factors: memory duration, on the one hand; and the type of information stored, on the other.
