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Memory is the ability of the brain to store, retain, and subsequently recall information. Although traditional studies of memory began in the realms of philosophy, the late nineteenth and early twentieth century put memory within the paradigms of cognitive psychology. In the recent decades, it has become one of the principal pillars of a new branch of science that represents a marriage between cognitive psychology and neuroscience, called cognitive neuroscience.

There are several ways of classifying memories, based on duration, nature and retrieval of information. From an information processing perspective there are three main stages in the formation and retrieval of memory:

• Encoding (processing and combining of received information)
• Storage (creation of a permanent record of the encoded information)
• Retrieval/Recall (calling back the stored information in response to some cue for use in some process or activity)

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• Researchers at Yale School of Medicine are recruiting subjects for a trial of treating schizophrenia with transcranial magnetic stimulation. External link

• In the March 2006 issue of Current Psychiatry, two American psychiatrists argue that schizophrenia does not exist, but is actually bipolar disorder with psychotic symptoms. External link A rebuttal was published here.

• The United States Food and Drug Administration approves the first transdermal patch to treat clinical depression. External link

• A study appearing in the British Journal of Medicine argues that providing psychological treatments to patients with medical problems like diabetes and hypertension can reduce their need for more traditional (often more costly) treatments. External link

• A national survey reveals that many Americans engage in unhealthy behaviors from smoking to unhealthy eating in order to manage stress. The research supports findings that 43% of adult suffer stress-related health problems. External link

• A recent fMRI study finds that thinking about partisan political subjects tends to be unconscious and emotional. Wikinews

Reification is the constructive or generative aspect of perception which allows an individual to infer spatial information not explicitly present in a given stimulus. It is an important concept in Gestalt psychology, illustrating the self-organizing abilities of the mind.

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John Broadus Watson (January 9, 1878–September 25, 1958) was an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism, after doing research on animal behavior. He is known for having claimed that he could take any 12 healthy infants and, by applying behavioral techniques, create whatever kind of person he desired. He also wrote about childrearing, worked in advertising and conducted the controversial Little Albert experiment.

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• ...that between 8.7% and 18.1% of Americans suffer from phobias?
• ...that social loafing is the phenomenon that people make less effort to achieve a goal when they work in a group than when they work alone?
• ...that it is nearly impossible for people with prosopagnosia to recognize faces?
• ...that the human brain has about 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion connections (synapses) between them?

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• "Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares." — Daniel Dennett
• "The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man." — B. F. Skinner
• "Where id is, there shall ego be." — Sigmund Freud
• "A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be." — Abraham Maslow

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