FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·January 23, 2023·5 min readOur Memory for Objects Might Be Better Than We ThinkA test of temporal and spatial memory reveals people are better at remembering where and when people saw objects than previously thought.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·January 6, 2023·3 min readThe Brain’s Ability to Perceive Space Expands Like the UniverseTime spent in a novel environment causes neural representations to grow in a surprising way.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·March 8, 2022·4 min readAstrocyte Networks in the Mouse Brain Control Spatial Learning and MemoryIn the brains of adult mice, astrocytes coupling contributes to neural functioning in the hippocampus, an area of the brain associated with spatial memory and learning.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·January 10, 2022·3 min readNew Neural Circuits That Regulate Spatial Learning and Memory in the Brain’s Hippocampal Formation DiscoveredStudy identifies a novel neural circuit that regulates spatial learning and memory in the brain's hippocampal formation.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·November 16, 2021·6 min readEver Been Lost in the Grocery Store? Researchers Are Closer to Knowing Why It HappensFindings shed light on repulsion, or why the brain treats similar environments as though they are more different than a pair of environments that have nothing in common.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·November 14, 2021·4 min readCan’t Find Your Keys? You Need a Chickadee BrainA new study reveals there is a genetic component to spatial memory in Mountain Chickadees.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesVisual Neuroscience·June 20, 2021·5 min readMemory Helps Us Evaluate Situations on the Fly, Not Just Recall the PastWhile commonly implicated in long-term memory, researchers report the hippocampus plays a critical role in short-term memory and decision making.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·May 13, 2021·4 min readStudy Reveals Where Memories of Familiar Places Are Stored in the BrainResearchers have identified three areas of the posterior cerebral cortex that bridge the brain's perception and memory systems.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·October 8, 2020·2 min readHuman Spatial Memory Prioritizes High Calorie FoodsPeople are better able to recall the location of high-calorie foods over healthier options. Findings suggest spatial memory may have evolved to prioritize the location of higher-calorie foods.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·November 19, 2019·4 min readVirtual ‘moonwalk’ for science reveals distortions in spatial memoryMemories learned within a distorted coordinated system are also distorted when recalled later.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·September 19, 2019·4 min readPoor diet may affect long-term spatial memoryWhat you eat may impact your long-term spatial memory. Rats fed a cafeteria-style diet, high in saturated fats and refined carbs, experienced deterioration in spatial memory that was incremental, according to the pattern of access to junk foods.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·September 17, 2019·5 min readBrain may not need body movements to learn virtual spacesVision appears to play a more dominant role than motor movements when it comes to encoding memory of large-scale spaces. The findings address a long-standing debate as to whether or not body movements aid the learning of physical spaces.Read More
