Neuroscience
There is a growing research literature in neuropsychology examining the SenseCam, a relatively long-time Microsoft project.
Microsoft's research project: SenseCam
Here is another example:
The neural correlates of everyday recognition memory
Brain and Cognition. 2011 Aug;76(3):369-81
Milton F, Muhlert N, Butler CR, Benattayallah A, Zeman AZ
Abstract
We used a novel automatic camera, SenseCam, to create a recognition memory test for real-life events. Adapting a 'Remember/Know' paradigm, we asked healthy undergraduates, who wore SenseCam for 2 days, in their everyday environments, to classify images as strongly or weakly remembered, strongly or weakly familiar or novel, while brain activation was recorded with functional MRI. Overlapping, widely distributed sets of brain regions were activated by recollected and familiar stimuli. Within the medial temporal lobes, 'Remember' responses specifically elicited greater activity in the right anterior and posterior parahippocampal gyrus than 'Know' responses. 'New' responses activated anterior parahippocampal regions. A parametric analysis, across correctly recognised items, revealed increasing activation in the right hippocampus and posterior parahippocampal gyrus (pPHG). This may reflect modulation of these regions by the degree of recollection or, alternatively, by increasing memory strength. Strong recollection elicited greater activity in the left posterior hippocampus/pPHG than weak recollection indicating that this region is specifically modulated by the degree of recollection.
PMID: 21561699 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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- Assistive Aid For Persons With Memory Deficits
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- Abstract Of The Day: Memory Distortion
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Neuroscience
Neuropsychology Abstract of the Day: A SenseCam Study
There is a growing research literature in neuropsychology examining the SenseCam, a relatively long-time Microsoft project.
Microsoft's research project: SenseCam
Here is another example:
The neural correlates of everyday recognition memory
Brain and Cognition. 2011 Aug;76(3):369-81
Milton F, Muhlert N, Butler CR, Benattayallah A, Zeman AZ
Abstract
We used a novel automatic camera, SenseCam, to create a recognition memory test for real-life events. Adapting a 'Remember/Know' paradigm, we asked healthy undergraduates, who wore SenseCam for 2 days, in their everyday environments, to classify images as strongly or weakly remembered, strongly or weakly familiar or novel, while brain activation was recorded with functional MRI. Overlapping, widely distributed sets of brain regions were activated by recollected and familiar stimuli. Within the medial temporal lobes, 'Remember' responses specifically elicited greater activity in the right anterior and posterior parahippocampal gyrus than 'Know' responses. 'New' responses activated anterior parahippocampal regions. A parametric analysis, across correctly recognised items, revealed increasing activation in the right hippocampus and posterior parahippocampal gyrus (pPHG). This may reflect modulation of these regions by the degree of recollection or, alternatively, by increasing memory strength. Strong recollection elicited greater activity in the left posterior hippocampus/pPHG than weak recollection indicating that this region is specifically modulated by the degree of recollection.
PMID: 21561699 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
- You Won't Forget This
Last year researchers reported they were able to use real-time images of a person’s brain activity to tell what version of an ambiguous shape they were looking at. Now Leun Otten and colleagues report that they can use measures of the brain’s surface...
- I Miss You But I Haven't Met You Yet
i miss you but i haven't met you yet so special but it hasn't happened yet you are gorgeous but i haven't met you yet i remember but it hasn't happened yet -- Björk, I Miss You Remembering The Past, Envisioning The Future As Björk...
- Assistive Aid For Persons With Memory Deficits
A Little Black Box to Jog Failing Memory By YUDHIJIT BHATTACHARJEE The New York Times Published: March 8, 2010"Researchers have tested the Sensecam, which contains a digital camera and an accelerometer, as an aid to people with Alzheimer’s disease and...
- Work In Progress: Sensecam - Potential As A Cognitive Aid Device?
The SenseCam is a Microsoft UK project. Seems like something that might have some potential as a cognitive aid device, though the reality of neuropsychological deficits after known brain damage would suggest that a lot more work needs to be done on how...
- Abstract Of The Day: Memory Distortion
Schacter DL, Slotnick SD. The cognitive neuroscience of memory distortion. Neuron. 2004 Sep 30;44(1):149-60. Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA. Memory distortion occurs in the laboratory and in everyday life....