Topic > The Human Brain - 1190

The human brain is a large, intricate, but delicate structure in the human body. It is the key structure of cognitive function. Any damage to the brain not only “erases” memories, but can also “trick” the brain into mistakenly remembering a new object as familiar (2010). Innovative researchers at the University of Cambridge studied this phenomenon in their research on The Paradoxial False Memory for Objects after Brain Damage. The publication began by stating the widely acceptable premise that damage to the medial temporal lobe causes the inability to remember new experiences immediately after learning them. . They indicated that the general belief is that this occurs because the ability to remember such information is impaired after a short period of time. They then deduced, starting from this premise, that such information or experiences are lost or become inaccessible to the extent that, when such experiences are presented and relived, they appear as if they were new or had never been learned. They then decided to explore this premise using the generally used model of memory impairment, the “standard model of object recognition memory.” According to James Hampton, a well-known professor of cognitive psychology at City University of London, “recognition is the process of matching a perceptual representation of the stimulus item [into] stored representations of previously [exposed] stimuli” (2003). This stored information is known as structural representations based on the visual-spatial nature of the stored information (Moss and Hampton, 2003). “Object recognition memory is the ability to discriminate the familiarity of previously encountered objects” (Gaskins et al., 2009). The standard object… half of the paper… the simulation results were valid because the animals that had suffered damage to the perirhinal cortex saw new objects as familiar. Based on the support of these simulations and laboratory results, I agree with the idea “that memory impairments in object recognition do not result from damage to the memory system. Rather, the brain damage that results in such impairments impairs only one [precise] type of complex stimulus representation” (McTighe et al., 2010). This may be the case for individuals with cortical brain damage such as amnesia and Alzheimer's disease based on the combination of perirhinal lesions and object recognition disorders similar to the findings of this research. However, to evaluate the paradoxical phenomenon and, further research is needed and further hierarchical and representative simulation tests need to be performed on humans..