Lift Weights, Improve Your Memory
Do you want to improve your memory? A new study suggests you participate in a spot of weight lifting.... Read More...
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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.... Read More...
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.... Read More...
Discovery About Animal Memory Opens Doors to Research on Memory Impairment Diseases
A new study offers evidence of source memory in nonhuman animals.... Read More...
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.... Read More...
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.... Read More...
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 signals. Recent im... Read More...
Remembering to Forget
New research suggests that it is possible to suppress emotional autobiographical memories. The study published this month by psychologists at the University of ... Read More...
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 kiss or a bump in the night — leave memory... Read More...
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 researc... Read More...