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·July 18, 2011·3 min read

Researchers Find Neural Signature of Mental Time Travel

Almost everyone has experienced one memory triggering another, but explanations for that phenomenon have proved elusive. Now, University of Pennsylvania...

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·March 23, 2012·4 min read

Researchers Show that Memories Reside in Specific Brain Cells

Simply activating a tiny number of neurons can conjure an entire memory. Our fond or fearful memories — that first...

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·June 22, 2012·2 min read

Remembering to Forget

New research suggests that it is possible to suppress emotional autobiographical memories. The study published this month by psychologists at...

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·June 26, 2012·4 min read

Researchers Show Neural Fingerprints of Memory Associations

Researchers have long been interested in discovering the ways that human brains represent thoughts through a complex interplay of electrical...

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·January 29, 2013·3 min read

In-Brain Monitoring Shows Memory Network

Working with patients with electrodes implanted in their brains, researchers show that areas of the brain work simultaneously to recall memories. The approach promises new insights into how we remember details of time and place.

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·February 19, 2013·3 min read

Reading the Minds of Mice

Researchers recently developed a system for observing real-time brain activity in a live mouse. The device could prove useful in studying new treatments for Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases.

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·February 27, 2013·3 min read

Discovery About Animal Memory Opens Doors to Research on Memory Impairment Diseases

A new study offers evidence of source memory in nonhuman animals.

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·July 25, 2013·5 min read

Neuroscientists Plant False Memories in Mice Brains and Locate Where Brain Stores False and Authentic Memory Traces

Neuroscientists appear to have implanted memories in mice and appear to have located where the brain stores memory traces, both false and authentic.

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·November 29, 2013·4 min read

Memories Are Geotagged with Spatial Information

A new study which used a video game where people navigate through a virtual town helps researchers to pinpoint how spatial information is incorporated into memory, and why remembering a specific experience can trigger memories of events which occurred in the same location.