Enactivism

Enactivism argues that cognition depends on a dynamic interaction between a cognitive organism and its environment. It claims that our environment is one which we selectively create through our capacities to interact with the world

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patient HM

Henry Gustav Molaison (February 26, 1926 - December 2, 2008), famously known as HM or H.M., was an American memory disorder patient whose hippocampus, parahippocampal gyrus, and amygdala were surgically removed in an attempt to cure his epilepsy.

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spacing effect

Reviews of material separated by a long period of time (“spaced”) yield more learning than reviews separated by a shorter period of time (“massed”);

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memory consolidation

Memory consolidation is a category of processes that stabilize a memory trace after the initial acquisition

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