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Some short-term memories die suddenly, no fading

Some Short-term Memories Die Suddenly, No Fading

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The human brain stores some kinds of memories for a lifetime. But when our eyes are open and looking at things, our gray matter also creates temporary memories that help us process complex ...





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Memory experts show sleeping rats may have visual dreams

Biology /

created Dec 18, 2006 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Memories of our life stories may be reinforced while we sleep, MIT researchers report Dec. 17 in the advance online edition of Nature Neuroscience.


Sense and sensibility in short-term memory

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 20, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

More than three centuries ago, Sir Isaac Newton reflected on the similarities between the sense of hearing and the sense of sight. Newton’s speculations were impossible to test scientifically, until now. A novel Brandeis ...


Why Sleep is Needed to Form Memories

Why Sleep is Needed to Form Memories

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 0

If you ever argued with your mother when she told you to get some sleep after studying for an exam instead of pulling an all-nighter, you owe her an apology, because it turns out she's right. And now, scientists ...


New study shows those blinded by brain injury may still 'see'

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Except in clumsy moments, we rarely knock over the box of cereal or glass of orange juice as we reach for our morning cup of coffee. New research at The University of Western Ontario has helped unlock the ...


Forget all about it: Traumatic memories can be erased

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

It is well known that fear memories are permanent. However, a recent paper in Science, evaluated by three Faculty Members for F1000, reports an extraordinary finding that supports the use of a drug to control recollections of tra ...


Cracking the spatial memory code

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers have shown that they can tell where a person is "standing" within a virtual reality room on the basis of the pattern of activity in the brain alone. The findings, published online on March 12th in Current Biology, a Cell ...


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Early scents really do get 'etched' in the brain

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Common experience tells us that particular scents of childhood can leave quite an impression, for better or for worse. Now, researchers reporting the results of a brain imaging study online on November 5th ...


Mechanisms of memory identified

Mechanisms of memory identified

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 23, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 0

Our ability to remember the objects, places and people within our environment is essential for everyday life, although the importance of this is only fully appreciated when recognition memory beings to fail, ...


Tracking feline memories on the move

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created Aug 20, 2007 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

When a cat steps over an obstacle with its front legs, how do its hind legs know what to do? A new study in the August 21st issue of Current Biology, a publication of Cell Press, reveals that it is the foreleg stepping moveme ...


Scientists capture the first image of memories being made

Scientists capture the first image of memories being made

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 18, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (21) | comments 2

The ability to learn and to establish new memories is essential to our daily existence and identity; enabling us to navigate through the world. A new study by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute ...



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