Forgetfulness & Sleep

Fathom

Potter, Hartman & Ward (2009) in Perceived stress and everyday memory complaints among older adult women, Journal of Anxiety, Stress & Coping, Vol 22, Issue 4, Pages 475-481, suggested "Partial correlation analyses indicated that higher levels of perceived stress were associated with higher levels of memory complaints." But sample size small (n= 54). Caution should be used.

Black Swan

I bet with the small sample size (n = 54) they used Pearson r to do their correlation analysis, which, may be stretching it. Using caution as recommended above, perhaps they should have treated it nonparametrically and used an appropriate statistical formula accordingly?

Fathom

Probably parametric treatment. Statistical violation.

Black Swan

Fathom gets "A" grade for Research Methods.

Black Swan

Month end close, grant reports due 30 out, so a bit of distress may account for my forgetting my dreams.

Fathom

Cramming for exams. Dream forgetfulness. But not school materials. Forgetfulness selective?

Black Swan

Methinks that the scholarly literature would be lacking in concept selective forgetfulness.

Fathom

Black Swan wrote: »

Methinks that the scholarly literature would be lacking in concept selective forgetfulness.

Meltzer, M., Selective Forgetfulness: Christopher Columbus Reconsidered, New Advocate, v5 n1 p1-9 Win 1992. :cool:

Black Swan

Paul Ricoeur, Memory, Forgetfulness, and History, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly, 45 (July 1996), pp. 13-24 .

Fathom

Forgot if I locked home door this morning. Went back to check. Procedural knowledge forgotten. Declarative remembered for exams. Wonders. Which stands out in dreams? Procedural? Declarative? Both? Ask Richard Clark?

Black Swan

Fathom wrote: »

Forgot if I locked home door this morning. Went back to check. Procedural knowledge forgotten. Declarative remembered for exams. Wonders. Which stands out in dreams? Procedural? Declarative? Both? Ask Richard Clark?

Dick would be pleased to see your use of procedural and declarative knowledge as applied to dreams. I'll bring it up when I coffee with him next.

Fathom

Dream recall. Procedural or declarative? Derridean dichotomy?

Black Swan

Fathom wrote: »

Dream recall. Procedural or declarative? Derridean dichotomy?

Grand point. Will give it some thought and reply when time permits.

Fathom

Jacques Derrida might turn over in his grave? If limiting ourselves to procedural and declarative?

Black Swan

No problems with forgetfulness for you.

Fathom

Not when cramming for exams! After?

Black Swan

What extent will the final exams cram and data dump affect dream content, as well as post-exam forgetfulness?

Fathom

Case study (me). n=1.

Black Swan

Individual unit of analysis, in more ways than one.

Fathom

Population of 1.

Black Swan

When N = 1 and n = 1 ?

Fathom

Black Swan wrote: »

When N = 1 and n = 1 ?

Census & sample.

Fathom

Not forgotten Methods prep for exams.

0lddog

Those of us that are examless but with autoimmune issues ( chrons, RA etc ) can have disturbed sleep patterns.

Immunosuppressant reducing cell replication rate compounds symptoms ?

Black Swan

0lddog wrote: »

with autoimmune issues ( chrons, RA etc ) can have disturbed sleep patterns.

Immunosuppressant reducing cell replication rate compounds symptoms ?

Good question.

See Davidof-Lustig, M., et al, (published online 7 July 2009), Correspondence: Memory Abnormalities in My Asthenia Gravis: Possible Fatigue of Central Nervous System Cholinergic Circuits, Autoimmunity, Vol 14, pp 85-86, suggests from a study that there were conflicting results as pertains to memory loss when associated with immunosuppressants.

More sources needed to answer this question.