Loci Analysis

He used a hand bearing compass, pointed at a lighthouse or some other landmark and looked across the lubber’s line into the bowl, taking bearings of two or more objects, and reading the direction or bearing of that object, off of the compass. Then, he plotted them onto his chart. Where the lines crossed, was where he was. It was that simple. The GPS was for his clients. It made them feel better, not him.

The second step is to look to the clouds, which will help determine if you will have smooth sailing or storms. The third step is to observe wildlife and seamarks, which will notify how close land is. Another step, which is normally considered the most difficult, would be to memorize constellations and stars, mapping them out in your mind. A true navigator will always know where they are due to the stars and their placement. Discovery isn’t always about traveling to new islands, or conquering new worlds.

In this essay, Nicholas Carr talks about how GPS help us to get from one point to another with the least possible effort, and how this can make our lives easier. It will take us away from the joy and adventure of understanding the world around us. Carr mentioned an author named by Tim Ingold. Tim Ingold talks about two different ways to find a way to your location. The first way is called wayfaring. Wayfaring is the way people become fundamental of being in the world we live in. This means that we enjoy finding our way around. Wayfaring becomes a process where we grow and develop. Another word for it is self-renewal. On the other hand, there is Transporting a different way of traveling. Transport is not a way of discovery,

The various methods of identifying murder victims and scientists continue to carry out research with an aim of coming up with more complex and correct of identifying victims of crime such as murder especially in cases where the remains of the victim are aged or extremely dishonored. When it comes to the identity of murder victims including in circumstances where only the teeth or the bones of the victim are available for identification of the victim. Depending on what type of work that a victim that have certain marks and calluses on their hands can also determine help identity a victim. A murder victim identity can also be known if they have identification on them. The victim could have a next of kin that could identify their body too.

Everyone clapped, he bowed, and the judge gave him a one. Okay, maybe that last part didn’t happen. Shortly thereafter, a servant came up to Simonides and told him that two young men on horseback had come to the door asking for him. He went outside and no one was there. He then turned around and the roof of the banquet hall had collapsed. When the bodies of the dead were recovered, they were so mangled that not even the victims' families could figure out who was who. Simonides found, though, that he could picture the banquet hall in his mind's eye and remember the order in which the guests had been sitting. This allowed him to identify the dead and guide each person to their family members.

The reason why I found that the location memory technique fascinating interesting was because to be able to memorize a lot of different information is a very valuable tool. Moreover, I thought it was interesting when the program pointed out that we can use different pathways to map the same information and when we use a lot of pathways we have the ability to remember more.

Mnemonic strategies are interactive images, which are used to support the memory associations are also used in the method of connection, which is used to learn an ordered list of items. The peg-list method can be used to learn sorted lists because actually built on the interactive images that combine a couple of words, word a plug with a white-list of words. Similarly, the method of loci can be seen as the peg-list method, as a way to learn a list of words by forming associations between

In modern day, with all types of technology, there are numerous ways for an individual to die, whether it was a suicide, homicide, an accident or it was simply their time. One way to help recognize signs for causes of death was determined by William Bass. In 1980, Bass started the ‘Body Farm’ behind the University of Tennessee, it was where human bodies would be placed, so him and his graduate students could observe decomposition closely (Text 2017: page 180). They started off with issues such as: how long it would take for a body to become skeletonized, as well as determining if a body was moved since it died (Text 2017: page 180). To relate Bass’ work to modern day, if I were to conduct a study at the ‘Body Farm’ I would want to find out the difference between a body that was thrown off the top of a 30-storey apartment building and a body that was beaten to death.

The Eighteenth Century. Giulio Gaetano Zumbo, Abraham Chavet and Ercole Lelli’s were the artists responsible for creating the practice. They developed the different methods of creating an image of a potential victim by using clay. These artists can be credited with pioneering the theory behind facial reconstruction: that is, from the shape and proportions of the skull can be inferred how the muscles were attached and shaped, defining the parameters of the face; anatomical correctness was important, rather than an exact likeness (Verzé, 2009). If law enforcement found a body of an unknown person, there was, no way of telling whom the person was if the body was severely damaged or decomposed. Determining who a person was with an unidentified body could pose a major problem for law enforcement.

There are many proposed divisions and sub-divisions of human memory, such as working memory, procedural memory, semantic memory or episodic memory. Many of the systems seem to overlap, with each having varying functions related to the maintenance of

Further, putting the correct numbers/alphabets in the keyboard and then using the keys to open the safe etc. He uses algorithmic steps and processes to get the money out of the safe (Friedenberg & Silverman, 2012, p.20). Therefore, procedural memory is a part of long-term memory because it it responsible for memorizing skills, being able to do things without conscious recall (Friedenberg & Silverman, 2012,

As part of the limbic system, the hippocampus is associated with the formation of new memories, as well as the process of learning and regulation of emotions. One of the primary responsibilities that the hippocampus is known for is its ability to turn short-term memories into long-term memories. According to Kalat (2013), the hippocampus is also important to processing three types of memory, including declarative memory (and episodic memory), spatial memory, and contextual memory. In studying patients with hippocampal damage, research has shown that the hippocampus is in fact important to learning to new facts, skills, and utilizing episodic memory (Kalat, 2013). Another hypothesis regarding the importance of the hippocampus relates to the ability to learn context. Essentially, it is hypothesized that being able to learn certain context relies on details that are remembered via the hippocampus. Recollection of memories, particularly more recent ones, relies on the hippocampus. However, Kalat (2013) also states that “as time passes, memory becomes less detailed, less dependent on the hippocampus, and more dependent on the cerebral cortex” (p. 401). Finally, spatial memory refers to the ability of the brain to record specific information about the layout or closeness of stimuli within one’s general environment. Researchers have been able to study the effects of the hippocampus on spatial memory through tests using such techniques as the radial maze or the Morris water maze. Their findings provide evidence of increased activity in the hippocampus during focus in spatial memories, as well as response learning. “It is suggested that it is involved in associating together information usually originating from different cortical regions, for example, about objects and their place in the spatial

How is memory encoded and what methods can lead to greater recall? There have been many different models suggested for human memory and many different attempts at defining a specific method of encoding that will lead to greater recall. In this experiment subjects are asked to do a semantic task on a word related to them and an orthographic task in which they analyze the letter in the word. The results of the experiment indicate that the words which where encoded semantically and are related to the self have greater recall.

Forensic scientists can identify the body through dental records, DNA samples or if the fingers are intact, fingerprints.

One way is forensic identity. Forensic identity tells who the person is and how old they are. The second is cannibal identity which is how people describe themselves and their experiences. In order to determine who that person was, anthropologist measure their biological sex by looking at the pelvis the sub cubic area. Rosen stated that males sub cubic are more narrow and looks similar to a triangle while a female’s is wider. They also pay close attention to the structure of the bones to determine the height, age, past trauma or past illness of that