FeaturedNeuroscience·March 18, 2019·4 min readOur brains may ripple before rememberingCoupled ripples between the medial temporal lobe and temporal cortex are enhanced prior to successful memory retrieval.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·March 14, 2019·4 min readYour brain may contain ‘time cells’ that help form long-term memoriesNew findings back up recent hippocampal research in rodents, providing evidence of a common hippocampal neural mechanism representing temporal information in episodic memory.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·March 6, 2019·7 min readMore Than Just Memories: A New Role for the Hippocampus During LearningA new role for the hippocampus involving pattern separation and conjunctive representation in reinforcement learning is discussed.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·January 11, 2019·2 min readTracking the Birth of MemoriesResearchers have identified three distinct stages of brain development that occur before an episodic memory can form.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·January 10, 2019·2 min readEarly Development of Memory for Space and TimeResearchers report episodic memory develops in distinct stages during postnatal maturation.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·January 1, 2019·4 min readWhy Two People See the Same Thing But Have Different MemoriesResearchers investigate why two people who experience the same event often have different memories of what occurred.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·December 17, 2018·3 min readMeasuring Speed of Mental Replay of Movies Gives Insight into Accessing MemoriesStudy reports people access fully detailed memories at different speeds and levels of detail, often accessing older information first. Findings could help developing treatments for those with PTSD, researchers say.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·December 11, 2018·6 min readHow Returning to a Prior Context Briefly Heightens Memory RecallAfter creating a memory in a context, engram cells encoding the memory in the hippocampus become more excitable when the context is repeated a short time later, researchers report.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·September 19, 2018·5 min readHow the Brain Combines Memories to Solve ProblemsUsing AI technology, researchers provide new insight into how the human brain connects individual episodic memories to help solve problems.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·September 4, 2018·4 min readWhat’s Your First Memory? Did It Ever Really Happen?What is the earliest memory you can recall? How sure are you the event really happened? Researchers say our earliest memories are more likely to be fictional.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·August 29, 2018·7 min readHow the Brain Experiences TimeResearchers have identified a network of cells in the entorhinal cortex that appear to play a key role into putting experience into a temporal context.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·August 2, 2018·2 min readHow Does Attention Impact False Memory Susceptibility?A new EEG study reveals people who are less able to sustain their attention long terms are more susceptible to creating false memories.Read More
