Study sheds light on the mechanisms involved in removing information from the working memory and concludes forgetting information requires a lot of effort.
Researchers explore the science behind memory and memory loss, including why forgetting things is a crucial part of memory formation.
The brain creates specific and distinct spaces within the cortex for each general rule of working memory and controls these spaces with brain rhythms, researchers report.
If neural assemblies between the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex fail to sync together at the correct time, memories are lost.
By considering brain areas associated with imagination, researchers are able to look back over millions of years to find out how imagination first evolved in humans.
Certain songs can help us reconnect with self-defining moments from earlier times, researchers report. Music that draws our attention also helps us to encode memories that are key to certain life events.
When it's more helpful to think ahead, people rely on the memories of previous experiences to help make choices.
The faces of celebrities are remembered more precisely, but less accurately researchers say.
Utilizing a classic neural network, researchers have created a new artificial intelligence model based on recent biological findings that shows improved memory performance.
Memory formation requires higher-frequency ripples in the hippocampus and lower-frequency ripples in the parietal cortex. However, to make a memory stick, coordinated high-frequency ripples between the hippocampus and parietal cortex are required.
Researchers have identified the in-vivo dynamics of synapses that underlie fear memory formation and extinction in the living brain.
Tracking hippocampal neurons in mice as they watched a movie revealed novel ways to improve artificial intelligence and track neurological disorders associated with memory and learning deficits.
