News tagged with memory circuits

Study offers new insight for preventing fear relapse after trauma

(Medical Xpress) -- In a new study, University of Michigan researchers identified brain circuits in rats that are responsible for the return of fear after it has been suppressed behaviorally.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Quantum computer components 'coalesce' to 'converse'

(PhysOrg.com) -- If quantum computers are ever to be realized, they likely will be made of different types of parts that will need to share information with one another, just like the memory and logic circuits ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Study shows 'mind-blowing sex' is a reality

(Medical Xpress) -- The term mind-blowing has been used to describe great sexual encounters for many generations, but for one 54-year-old woman, sex with her husband really was mind-blowing.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

E-textiles get fashion upgrade with memory-storing fiber

The integration of electronics into textiles is a burgeoning field of research that may soon enable smart fabrics and wearable electronics. Bringing this technology one step closer to fruition, Jin-Woo Han and Meyya Meyyappan ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Physicists demonstrate the quantum von Neumann architecture

A new paradigm in quantum information processing has been demonstrated by physicists at UC Santa Barbara. Their results are published in this week's issue of Science Express online.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (18) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

An advance toward ultra-portable electronic devices

Scientists are reporting a key advance toward the long-awaited era of "single-molecule electronics," when common electronic circuits in computers, smart phones, audio players, and other devices may shrink ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Competition between brain cells spurs memory circuit development

Scientists at the University of Michigan Health System have for the first time demonstrated how memory circuits in the brain refine themselves in a living organism through two distinct types of competition between cells.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2 | with audio podcast

World's first Content Addressable Memory stores data without using power

NEC Corporation and Tohoku University announced today the development of the world's first content addressable memory (CAM) that both maintains the same high operation speed and non-volatile operation as existing ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (13) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

At the forefront of optogenetics

(Medical Xpress) -- In the last couple of years scientists from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research have developed new strategies to stimulate individual brain cells with light. Optogenetic ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Dendritic branch is preferred integrative unit for protein synthesis-dependent LTP

Neuroscientists at MIT's Picower Institute of Learning and Memory have uncovered why relatively minor details of an episode are sometimes inexplicably linked to long-term memories. The work, slated to appear in the Jan. 13, ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Neuroscientists explain 'Proustian effect' of small details attached to big memories

Neuroscientists at MIT's Picower Institute of Learning and Memory have uncovered why relatively minor details of an episode are sometimes inexplicably linked to long-term memories. The work is slated to appear in the Jan. ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Power consumption cut by 50% with Panasonic's 32-bit microcomputer

Panasonic Corporation has successfully developed a new series of 32-bit microcomputers with built-in flash memory which contribute to energy-saving and system cost reduction of in-car electronics, office equipment, ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 17, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

HP finds partner to build memristors into chips

Hewlett-Packard Co. has found an ally to take a breakthrough research project of HP's and build the technology into computer chips.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 03, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Ultralow-power memory uses orders of magnitude less power than other devices

(PhysOrg.com) -- As RFID tags are becoming more widespread for tracking and identifying almost anything, researchers are continuing to develop cheap, ultralow-power memory devices for these applications. In ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 26, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Cheaper substrates made of oxide materials

Imagine building cheaper electronics on a variety of substrates -- materials like plastic, paper, or fabric. Researchers at Taiwan's National Chiao Tung University have made a discovery that opens this door, allowing them ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 27, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0