Word: hamlins
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...Fiction" and "Good Will Hunting") Lawrence Bender at a fund-raiser for Christopher Reeve's Paralysis Foundation. VIP guests paid a hefty $10,000 to take home party favors packed with Kenneth Cole watches and wallets and to rock with Melissa Etheridge. Her three-song set had actor Harry Hamlin and lip-luscious wife Lisa Rinna dancing in the grass while wine and rum flowed and trays of shrimp and goat cheese quesadillas circulated...
When adults concerned about their memory come to the Pisgah Institute for Psychiatry and Education in Asheville, N.C., psychologist Ed Hamlin gives them standard tests for visual and verbal memory, delayed recall and delay in attention and concentration. For most, the results are reassuring: their memory is not only good, it exceeds the average for their...
...what about those times when they experience a total blank? Says Hamlin: "A number of problems are not problems with memory at all. They are really problems with your attention." There are three basic steps in memory: registration, retention and retrieval. They occur sequentially; if new information isn't taken in (registered), it can't be stored. Focusing on incoming material, whether heard, seen or read, helps implant it in memory. Psychologist Cynthia Green advises students in her memory classes at New York City's Mount Sinai Medical Center that "often what we think we forgot we really didn...
Though everyone hopes for a long life, most fear old age and the decline of body and brain. "The mind does change," says Hamlin, "but it is not inferior. It is different." Each of us needs to appreciate our mind as it is instead of as it once was. Teens who can talk, listen to music and surf the Web at the same time are admirably adept at taking in many bits of information, but they may not connect them in meaningful ways. Speed, after all, isn't everything. Though less swift, the older person continues to absorb new material...
...revolutionary," partly because "it's fully automated but very personal and interactive." But traditional research still delivers more inclusive samples and data better suited to projections. Jim Spaeth, president of the Advertising Research Foundation, observes that "there could be a problem if it replaces high-quality research." Charles Hamlin, InsightExpress president, agrees: "InsightExpress is an appropriate tool for getting a good sense of the marketplace. If you are making decisions of magnitude, we encourage you to use the traditional market-research industry...