#Cognitive and Memory

[disabled-dyke]

i feel like we dont talk enough about how distressing and disturbing memory loss issues are. forgetting what you were talking about halfway through a sentence, putting something down and instantly forgetting where you put it. having to reread one paragraph over and over again because by the time youve moved onto the next sentence you dont remember what the one before it said. always doubting if your memories of things are real, not being able to remember important life events.

its so incredibly scary, it feels like your mind is constantly playing tricks on you and you start to doubt whats real and what isnt.

“i forgot” is treated like a lazy excuse when it’s genuinely such a big issue for so many people.

[bamsara]

is it burn-out, chronic illness, or trauma causing this? a novel by me

[tangledinink]

So.... Wait, I'm thinking Donnie may have perhaps confused Odette and Othello together, and because he was responding to it, it triggered something? Just a hunch.

i love it when you guys are right, it's fun.

swanatello.

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[otaku553]

Procrastination doodles of sabo for the king sabo au :)

[funeral]

When we try to remember something that happened to us, these sorts of “constructive” errors are common. We can usually recall a few facts, and using these facts we construct other facts that probably happened. We make inferences. From these probable inferences, we are led to other “false facts” that might—or might not—have been true [ . . . ] This process of using inferences and probable facts to fill in the gaps of our memories has been called “refabrication,” and it probably occurs in nearly all of our everyday perceptions. We supply these bits and pieces, largely unconsciously, to round out fairly incomplete knowledge.

Nancy Loftus, Memory: Surprising New Insights Into How We Remember and Why We Forget

[waitineedaname]

sorry im still so fucking unwell about the bingge vs bingmei extra. not only did he get this little glimpse into a world where he's loved, but he goes home with evidence of it on him -- the disciple robes, and the little braid sqq sneakily put in his hair. can you imagine bingge going back to his world and realizing there's a delicate little braid in his hair, put there by the shizun that loved him and treated him tenderly. im going to eat gravel.

[deadscell]

[reasonsforhope]

"Caring for a pet helps stave off cognitive decline for people over 50 who live on their own, according to a new study of almost 8,000 participants.

Researchers found that pet ownership was associated with slower rates of decline in verbal memory and verbal fluency among the older adults who were living alone.

The study included 7,945 mostly-white British participants from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing with an average age of 66.

Followed over an eight year period, more than a third of the group (35.1 percent) owned pets; about 30% of the group lived alone.

Previous studies suggested that solitary living is a risk factor for developing dementia and cognitive decline, but among those folks, raising dogs or cats was related to reduced loneliness.

Some research has found that pet ownership is associated with better verbal memory and executive function, but others failed to find any evidence.

The new research published in JAMA Network aimed to further explore the association between aging by oneself—a trend which has been on the rise over the past few decades—and pet ownership. And the results were clear.

“Pet ownership offset the associations between living alone and declining rates in verbal memory and verbal fluency,” said study corresponding author Professor Ciyong Lu, of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China.

It was “a significant modifier” in all 3 associations—composite verbal cognition, verbal memory, and verbal fluency.

“Pet ownership was associated with slower rates of decline among older adults living alone.”

But owning a cat or dog did not make any difference for older people who lived with other people.

“These findings suggest that pet ownership may be associated with slower cognitive decline among older adults living alone.”

Prof. Lu is now calling for clinical trials that could help inform public health measures to address dementia among the elderly."

-via Good News Network, November 30, 2023

[osddid-i-do-that]

Having AuDHD and conditions that affect memory is so weird.

Here is my hyper fixation. I love it. I know nothing about it until I open the Wikipedia page. Please take me to the convention but don’t take me to trivia night. You can’t ask me anything specific but I will drop an odd fact out of nowhere with zero follow up and you just have to say “Cool!” and move on.

Thank you for coming to my TED statement.

[alwaysbewoke]

side-eyeing all the anti-vaccine, anti-masks, "get back to normal," "the kids will be fine" fucktwats hella hard right now. fuck everyone one of you.

[vampjasper]

I hate how it can take me anywhere from minutes (on a good day), to hours, to days for me to be able to articulate my thoughts properly and make them coherent and understandable.

I am constantly forgetting what I want to say; constantly forgetting the words I need even when they're just on the tip of my tongue/fingers; constantly getting my thoughts and therefore my words all mixed up, making them incoherent to even myself; constantly going off on a tangent about stuff that often isn't even relevant; and more which makes typing and communicating my thoughts hard.

I just wish I could communicate my thoughts properly but there are so many barriers, and they're all invisible, and a lot of people just don't understand them because they often cannot physically see the struggles.

[funeral]

We experience events in association with an ongoing story about who we are, in which we struggle to achieve coherence and continuity rather than objective truth. Similarly, our memories do not consist of snapshots of our experiences; rather, we store our experiences in memory in connection with a web of associations that is consistent with our narrative. Further, each time we store or recall an event, we invoke and reconstruct ("re-member") not an isolated occurrence but the entire web of associations: our story. This storytelling is central to the protean self's capacity to shift shape while sustaining its inner form.

Lisa Capps and Elinor Ochs, Constructing Panic: The Discourse of Agoraphobia

[shadow-kid-cole]

hello friends i wanted to ask for help from those with a better memory for lore/details from the games than i have. a friend of mine is doing a presentation party soon, and i want to do mine on da2 - why my favorite game kind of sucks and how i’d fix it lmao i’ve got a lot of ideas and have been replaying it to find extra details, but my memory isn’t great and i know there’s a lot of great meta posts about it on here, so i wanted to give y’all a chance to chime in! what are some things you think i should include? what are your favorite or least favorite aspects of the game? what parts are really cool and what parts do you hate? specific examples of scenes/quests/dialogue would help - also, if you know of any posts or anything else that have this type of info, send them my way! i love da2 and i’m very excited to talk about the game that it is and also the game that it could have been, so i want to be sure i have enough for it to make sense!

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

Q: Who put baby chicks 🐣 & mice 🐀 into a blender to prepare meals for his pet falcon?

A: The same ENVIRONMENTALIST who

anonymously disposed of a bear 🐻 carcass in Central Park

prefers eating the eyes of the rat before the body

covered up his kid's faces with trash bags so he could re-stock his "roadkill" freezer with the carcass of a freshly "decapitated" whale 🐳

"I am who I am. I'm not a church boy. I have so many skeletons in my closet that if they could all vote I could be elected king of the world."

[swagging-back-to]

not sorry i really do believe you have to be fundamentally stupider than the average person to believe in religion and religious teachings.

[dreams-and-honor]

I am so fucking tired of Social Security making me jump through hoops btw