Browsing by Subject "memory"
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Cemetery as a Place of Cultural Communication
(2012-04-10)Cemeteries serve as repositories of history and memories of the local community, as well as afford the living population an opportunity to connect and learn about a culture’s past. Accordingly, the cemetery as a place and ... -
THE COGNITIVE CONSEQUENCES OF FORGETTING: AN INVESTIGATION OF IOR IN ITEM-METHOD DIRECTED FORGETTING
(2015-04-20)This dissertation investigated the occurrence of an increased magnitude of inhibition of return (IOR) after Forget (F) compared to Remember (R) memory instructions using a directed forgetting cueing paradigm. In such a ... -
EXPLORING THE ROLE OF ATTENTIONAL WITHDRAWAL IN ITEM-METHOD DIRECTED FORGETTING THROUGH VISUAL SEARCH
(2023-04-04)We embedded a serial and pop-out visual search into the study phase of an item-method directed forgetting paradigm to assess attentional availability following instructions to remember (R) or forget (F). Study words were ... -
The Imagery of Roman Identity in Augustan Rome
(2018-08-21)The understanding of Roman identity in Augustan Rome derived from the images that Augustus used to authenticate his own identity. By controlling the images that epitomized Roman cultural identity, Augustus not only ... -
Intentional Forgetting Diminshes the Likelihood of Semantic Encoding in the Item-method Paradigm
(2020-08-31)The aim of the current study was to determine whether differences in the nature of encoding that underlies to-be-remembered (TBR) vs. to-be-forgotten (TBF) items are responsible for the disparity in the quality of their ... -
Neural Correlates Of The Production Effect: Insights From Univariate And Multivariate Analyses Of fMRI Data
(2024-06-19)The production effect is a simple phenomenon in human memory: words that are read aloud are more likely to be remembered on a subsequent memory test (e.g., a recognition task) compared to words read silently. This effect, ... -
Re-imagining a Petrochemical Landscape in Dartmouth Nova Scotia
(2016-04-07)This thesis addresses the vast petrochemical landscape of the Imperial Oil Refinery situated within the urban context of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. The recent decommissioning of the refinery has reduced it to an arcane ...