More Than Just Memories: A New Role for the Hippocampus During Learning
A new role for the hippocampus involving pattern separation and conjunctive representation in reinforcement learning is discussed.... Read More...
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New Way By Which the Brain Marks Time Identified
A new neuroimaging study helped researchers capture the processes by which the brain stores information related to when events happen. The findings could help further the understanding of age related dementia. ... Read More...
Histamines Can Boost Long Term Memory of Objects
Researchers report histamines can help improve memory of objects up-to 25 days longer than normal in mice, as well as improving people's long term memory test scores. The study suggests taking histamines may help alleviate symptoms of memory disorders such as Alzheimer's and other dementias.... Read More...
Direct Amygdala Stimulation Can Enhance Memory in Humans
Researchers report in a new PNAS study that direct stimulation of the amygdala can enhance memory of images a day later, if the stimulation is applied immediately after the images are viewed.... Read More...
How the Brain Recognizes Familiar Faces
Researchers discover two new areas of the brain involved in facial processing.... Read More...
Taking Control of a Rat’s Sense of Familiarity and Novelty
Researchers take control of rats' brains to induce the animals to behave as those new images were familiar and old images were novel, a new study reports.... Read More...