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Description:: Research on how sleep contributes to memory has blossomed in recent years. These studies have generally focused on whether or not sleep impacts various types of memory independently. An open question is whether sleep interactively influences different memory types. My research focuses on two types of memory—specificity and generalization. Whereas...
Keyword:: memory, sleep, generalization, memory consolidation, and targeted memory reactivation
Subject:: Cognitive psychology, Psychobiology, and Neurosciences
Creator:: Witkowski, Sarah (Sadie)
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 04/15/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15250 and etdadmin_upload_763727

Description:: Episodic memory provides a means by which we reflect on the past, make decisions about the future, and form a learned identity. Episodic memory depends on the hippocampus as well as on the distributed set of regions that form a hippocampal-cortical network (HCN), including medial prefrontal, posterior cingulate, and medial...
Keyword:: memory, hippocampus, brain network, and stimulation
Subject:: Neurosciences
Creator:: Warren, Kristen N
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 04/29/2020
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14985 and etdadmin_upload_717587

Description:: The vertebrate brain, which is made up of a vast array of individual neurons, is responsible for controlling numerous functions and behaviors, including distinguishing between visual cues, learning to navigate in a new environment, or making complex decisions. These neurons form specific networks that receive, process, and integrate chemical and...
Keyword:: plasticity, subiculum, tmetabotropic, burst, amphetamine, and memory
Subject:: Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
Creator:: Shannon Jessie Moore
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/17/2018
Date Modified:: 09/17/2018
Date Created:: 2008-06-04
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Late twentieth-century architecture is increasingly charged with the task of constructing sites of meaning that generate awareness and understanding in the wake of catastrophic historical events. My dissertation explores the challenges of memorializing these events, in order to recover the importance of memory for politics. Insisting on the role of...
Keyword:: memory, Walter Benjamin, judgment, space, memorial, and Hannah Arendt
Subject:: Political Science
Creator:: Uri Jacob Matatyaou
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/08/2018
Date Modified:: 09/08/2018
Date Created:: 2008-05-08
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Chronic pain is a prevalent and under-treated condition that remains a mystery to the medical system and a major social and economic problem. Unfortunately, there is no single treatment superior to others for relieving chronic pain. While recent scientific discoveries have provided us with functional and anatomical brain biomarkers of...
Keyword:: memory, chronic pain, neuroimaging, latent semantic analyses, placebo, and personality
Subject:: Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
Creator:: Sara Elizabeth Berger
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/19/2018
Date Modified:: 02/19/2018
Date Created:: 2016-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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