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·October 7, 2026·6 min read

How Brain Cells Lock In Short-Term Memories

A new study reveals a "split attractor network" in fruit flies that explains how neural circuits stabilize short-term working memories.

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·May 20, 2025·5 min read

Brain’s Gatekeepers Remember Signals to Shape Long-Term Memory

Summary: A new study reveals how calcium ion channels in the brain don’t just relay signals—they remember them. Researchers discovered...

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·January 17, 2023·7 min read

Smartphone App Can Significantly Improve Memory Recall

A new smartphone app, dubbed HippoCamera helps to significantly improve memory recall and could have applications for improving memory for those suffering from Alzheimer's disease. The app mimics the function of the hippocampus, constructing and maintaining memories. The app enhances biological memory encoding by boosting attention to daily events and consolidating them more distinctly.

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·December 29, 2022·7 min read

Holding Information in Mind May Mean Storing It Among Synapses

Findings support modern thought that neural networks store information by making short-term alterations to the synapses. The study sheds new light on short-term synaptic plasticity in recent memory storage.

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·December 2, 2022·3 min read

Short Term Memory Problems Can Be Improved With Laser Therapy

Transcranial photobiomodulation (tPBM), a laser therapy delivered to the right prefrontal cortex appears to improve short-term memory in both human and animal models. The therapy, which is non-invasive and has no side effects, could help treat those with short-term memory deficits.

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·December 15, 2021·4 min read

Long-Term and Short-Term Memory Vie for Brain Space

Long-term memory consolidation and short-term memory processes that occur during sleep do so at a cost to one another.

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·December 17, 2020·4 min read

Computational Model Reveals How the Brain Manages Short-Term Memories

A new computational algorithm shows how the brain maintains information in the short term using specific types of neurons.

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·December 8, 2020·3 min read

Visual Short-Term Memory Is More Complex Than Previously Assumed

Objects are not only represented in one form of short term memory but in several forms simultaneously.

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·August 4, 2019·4 min read

Heavy metal music may have a bad reputation, but it has numerous mental health benefits for fans

Heavy metal music may have a bad reputation, but a new study reveals the music has positive mental health benefits for its fans.

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·June 10, 2019·5 min read

AI software reveals the inner workings of short-term memory

A recurrent neural network algorithm demonstrates short-term synaptic plasticity can support short term maintenance of information, providing the memory delay period is sufficiently short.

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·March 14, 2019·4 min read

It’s Not Your Fault, Your Brain is Self-Centered

Testing self-referential bias in working memory, researchers report people automatically self prioritize. This may form the basis for egocentric bias when it comes to decision making.

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·July 5, 2018·2 min read

Brain Cell That Improves Learning Detected

A new study reveals OLM cell activity can affect memory encoding. The findings enhance understanding of how a single component in memory circuits can affect memory formation.

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short-term memory

How Brain Cells Lock In Short-Term Memories

Brain’s Gatekeepers Remember Signals to Shape Long-Term Memory

Smartphone App Can Significantly Improve Memory Recall

Holding Information in Mind May Mean Storing It Among Synapses

Short Term Memory Problems Can Be Improved With Laser Therapy

Long-Term and Short-Term Memory Vie for Brain Space

Computational Model Reveals How the Brain Manages Short-Term Memories

Visual Short-Term Memory Is More Complex Than Previously Assumed

Heavy metal music may have a bad reputation, but it has numerous mental health benefits for fans

AI software reveals the inner workings of short-term memory

It’s Not Your Fault, Your Brain is Self-Centered

Brain Cell That Improves Learning Detected

Cannabis Destroys Sleep Quality

Genetic Risk for Anorexia May Begin Outside the Brain

Higher BMI Linked to Longer Survival After a Dementia Diagnosis

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