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Loyalty On The Line: Civil War Maryland In American Memory, David Graham
Loyalty On The Line: Civil War Maryland In American Memory, David Graham
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During the American Civil War, Maryland did not join the Confederacy but nonetheless possessed divided loyalties and sentiments. Although Maryland's government remained loyal to the Union during war, many regions and cities in the state harbored strong Confederate sympathies. In particular, Baltimore was a stronghold for Confederate sympathizers and became a central setting for contention between those supporting the Union and those in favor of secession and the secessionist cause. More than 46,000 Maryland soldiers fought for the Union while perhaps 25,000 soldiers from the state joined the Confederate Army. As a slaveholding state that did not secede, Maryland, along …
Effects Of High-Protein And High-Fiber Breakfasts On Preschoolers' Feelings Of Fullness, Diet Quality And Memory, Mary Catherine Brauchla
Effects Of High-Protein And High-Fiber Breakfasts On Preschoolers' Feelings Of Fullness, Diet Quality And Memory, Mary Catherine Brauchla
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Evidence For A Mnemonic Benefit Of Animate-Object Interaction: Enhanced Retention From Animate Contact, Mindi Hope Cogdill
Evidence For A Mnemonic Benefit Of Animate-Object Interaction: Enhanced Retention From Animate Contact, Mindi Hope Cogdill
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The importance of animacy has been discovered in the perception literature, the neuroscience literature, and most recently in the memory literature. However, little is known about the extent to which we track the things that agents come into contact with in the environment, and its implications for human memory. Our memory system has been shaped by natural selection to assist in our ability to survive long enough to reproduce our genes. One of the major evolutionary influences on our survival would have been our ability to track, monitor, and predict the behavior of other agents because an agent can be …
Adaptive Memory: Animacy And The Method Of Loci, Janell R. Blunt
Adaptive Memory: Animacy And The Method Of Loci, Janell R. Blunt
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A functionalist approach to cognition assumes that people’s minds are tuned to process and remember information that benefits our survival or reproduction (Nairne, 2005). One source of information with potentially high fitness value is things that are alive and animate (Nairne, VanArsdall, Pandeirada, Cogdill, & LeBreton, 2013). The purpose of this dissertation was to explore the effects of using an ancient mnemonic – the method of loci – to examine memory for animate objects. Across four experiments, subjects used the method of loci to remember a list of animate or inanimate objects. I manipulated animacy by using animate or inanimate …