FeaturedNeuroscience·February 18, 2019·3 min readHow Animals Remember and Find Their Way Back to Food SourcesStudy reveals the hippocampus may overlay existing mental maps with information about reward and hazard derived from food found in specific locations.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·May 13, 2016·3 min readREM Sleep is a Keystone of Memory Formation in MiceA new study provides evidence that REM sleep does play a vital role in memory formation, at least in mice.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·May 9, 2014·4 min readYour Brain on Speed: Walking Doesn’t Impair Thinking and MultitaskingResearchers examine how well study participants perform spatial cognitive tasks while walking and standing still.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·February 11, 2019·5 min readRats in Augmented Reality Help Show How the Brain Determines LocationUsing 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
FeaturedNeuroscience·December 4, 2014·4 min read3D Compass in the BrainA group of neurons in the hippocampal formation sense which direction the head is pointed, a new study reports.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·June 30, 2016·5 min readExperimental System Sheds Light on How Memory Loss May OccurStudying the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex, researchers have discovered new information about how dysfunction of the circuit that connects the two areas may contribute to memory loss in Alzheimer's.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·August 9, 2017·4 min readPlaying With Your Brain: The Negative Impact of Action Video GamesA neuroimaging study reveals response learners show a decrease in hippocampal gray matter after playing action based video games for 90 hours.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
FeaturedGeneticsNeuroscience·May 31, 2017·4 min readMetabolic Enzyme Fuels Molecular Machinery of MemoryResearchers find genetic clues as to how mice lay down spatial memories.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
FeaturedNeuroscience·May 11, 2018·4 min readPutting Distinct Memories of Similar Events in Their PlaceA 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
