Memory 2

Aphantasia

inability to form mental images

Alzheimer's disease

a neurodegenerative disease characterised by memory loss

Neurodegenerative disease

characterised by the progressive death of neurons

Hippocampus

The brain region first impacted by Alzheimer's Disease. Leads to impairment with STM and LTM (explicit) as well as difficulty using semantic and episodic memories to form imaged futures.

Neocortex

The brain region later impacted. Affects storage of explicit memories and can lead to personality changes

Amyloid Plaque

Fragments of the protein beta-amyloid that accumulate into insoluble plaques that inhibit communication between neurons

Neurofibrillary tangles

accumulation of the protein tau that forms insoluble tangles within neurons. This inhibits transportation of essential substances and will eventually kill the neuron

Mnemonic device

memory aids that help organize information for encoding

Acronym

Mnemonic device. A word formed from the first letter of each word in a series

Acrostic

Mnemonic device. The first letters form a phrase, rhyme or poem

Sung narrative

knowledge and information such as stories told using song

Songlines

songs that link ancestral beings and features of the world