What makes memories stronger? Rat Study
Hippocampal replay selectively enhances memory of highly rewarded locations in a familiar context.... Read More...
spatial memory
How Animals Remember and Find Their Way Back to Food Sources
Study reveals the hippocampus may overlay existing mental maps with information about reward and hazard derived from food found in specific locations.... Read More...
Rats in Augmented Reality Help Show How the Brain Determines Location
Using augmented reality, researchers discover how rats recalibrate learned relationships between a landmark, speed, distance and time to create a locational 'map' in the brain.... Read More...
Pinpointing Cells That Control the Brain’s Memory Flow
A new mouse study reveals a small cluster of interneurons in the hippocampus help the brain remember the places that matter the most. The findings could have implications for future studies of psychiatric disorders.... Read More...
Early Development of Memory for Space and Time
Researchers report episodic memory develops in distinct stages during postnatal maturation.... Read More...
Childhood Stress Affects Behavior of Offspring: Mouse Study
Researchers report on the epigenetic effect of early life stress. In a new study, researchers reveal mice who experienced stress in the first few weeks of life showed deterioration in memory, learning and maternal behaviors. Behavioral changes were seen in their later offspring, regardless of sex. ... Read More...
RNA Changes Aid Memory and Learning Process
The most common messenger RNA modification in mammals helps coordinate nerve cell response to memory inducting stimulus, a new study reveals.... Read More...
How the Brain’s Grid System Maps Mental Spaces
An international team of researchers have been able to demonstrate, with electrophysiological evidence, the existence of grid-like activity in the human brain.... Read More...
How Brain Cells Work Together to Remember and Imagine Places
Researchers have created a computational model that helps explain how mental images drawn from memory can be explained by the firing of specific neurons.... Read More...
Mapping Memory
A new study sheds light on how our brain stores long term spatial memories. Researchers have identified a specific pattern of neural activity in the retrosplenial cortex when our brains are in the process of storing spatial memories.... Read More...
Putting Distinct Memories of Similar Events in Their Place
A new study reports, contrary to popular belief, place cells in the dentate gyrus do not remap. Instead, memory discrimination is controlled by increased co-firing of place cells and the neurons that organize which place cells discharge.... Read More...
New Brain Area Implicated in Navigation and Spatial Memory
A new study reveals how patterns of neural activity in the retrosplenial cortex assist with navigation and spatial memory.... Read More...