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·January 26, 2022·4 min read

Can Brain Stimulation Improve Memory Formation?

Electrical stimulation improves verbal memory for those with responsive neurostimulation implants when activated during certain memory tasks.

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·January 22, 2022·5 min read

In Visual Memory, Size Matters

In natural vision, visual memories of an image are affected by the size of the vision on the retina.

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·October 28, 2021·4 min read

Action Video Games Make Players Better Learners of Visual and Memory Tasks

Video games high in action content help players to become quicker learners, researchers report.

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·June 20, 2021·5 min read

Memory Helps Us Evaluate Situations on the Fly, Not Just Recall the Past

While commonly implicated in long-term memory, researchers report the hippocampus plays a critical role in short-term memory and decision making.

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·June 13, 2021·4 min read

Aphantasia Explained: Some People Can’t Form Mental Pictures

Aphantasia is marked by the inability to generate visual images in the mind's eye. Researchers explore the neurobiological basis for the disorder.

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·June 9, 2021·6 min read

As Novel Sights Become Familiar, Different Brain Rhythms and Neurons Take Over

As novel visual patterns become familiar, stark changes occur in the visual cortex. Gamma rhythms give way to low-wave beta waves, and the neural activity switches from PV neurons in favor of inhibitory SOM neurons.

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·May 28, 2021·3 min read

Evidence for New Type of Memory

New research indicates the existence of an unconscious iconic memory store that supports predictions made by the global workspace theory of consciousness. It also shows that visual masking does not erase memory traces of masked stimuli but only limits conscious access.

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·February 20, 2021·5 min read

Prediabetes May Be Linked to Worse Brain Health

People with prediabetes who have higher than average blood sugar levels are at increased risk of cognitive problems and vascular dementia.

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·February 9, 2021·5 min read

How Our Visual System Avoids Overloading

Findings contradict the assumption the visual system categorizes objects based on simple features alone.

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·February 8, 2021·7 min read

As You Look Around, Mental Images Bounce Between Right and Left Brain

In visual working memory, the brain immediately transfers the memory of object shifts by re-encoding the memory among neurons in the opposite brain hemisphere.

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·December 27, 2020·6 min read

Can’t Draw a Mental Picture? Aphantasia Causes Blind Spots in the Mind’s Eye

While people with aphantasia lack visual imagery ability, they have intact spatial memory. Findings suggest mental imagery recall and spatial memory may be stored differently in the brain.