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Category Archives: Memory
Future choices may be guided by our memories of past ones
When it comes to making choices, past decisions may play a surprisingly large role. The traditional view of decision-making is that our choices are guided by what we remember about the outcomes of previous choices we’ve made. But in recent … Continue reading
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How the brain consolidates memory during deep sleep
Research strongly suggests that sleep, which constitutes about a third of our lives, is crucial for learning and forming long-term memories. But exactly how such memory is formed is not well understood and remains, despite considerable research, a central question … Continue reading
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. If you’ve ever forgotten something mere seconds after it was at the forefront of your mind–the name of a dish you … Continue reading
Outsourcing Memory in Response to an Aging Population
With baby boomers entering old age and longevity increasing, policymakers have focused on the physical, social, and health needs of older persons. We urge policymakers to consider cognitive aging as well, particularly normal, age-related memory decline. Psychological scientists attribute memory … Continue reading
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How Neurons Form Long-Term Memories
Mouse study reveals how neurons reorganize following experiencing novel stimuli. The study reports a possible mechanism for memory consolidation and recall, shedding new light on the biological underpinnings for long-term memory. On a late summer day in 1953, a young … Continue reading
Nutrients or nursing? Understanding how breast milk feeding affects child cognition
Purpose. To explore the associations between type of milk feeding (the “nutrients”) and mode of breast milk feeding (the “nursing”) with child cognition. Methods. Healthy children from the GUSTO (Growing Up in Singapore Toward healthy Outcomes) cohort participated in repeated neurodevelopmental assessments … Continue reading
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How Experience Changes Basics of Memory Formation
We know instinctively that our experiences shape the way we learn. If we are highly familiar with a particular task, like cooking for example, learning a new recipe is much easier than it was when we were a novice. New research … Continue reading
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Cueing newly learned information in sleep improves memory
Scientists have long known that sleep plays an important role in the formation and retention of new memories. That process of memory consolidation is associated with sudden bursts of oscillatory brain activity, called sleep spindles, which can be visualized and … Continue reading
Even mild physical activity immediately improves memory function
People who include a little yoga or tai chi in their day may be more likely to remember where they put their keys. Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and Japan’s University of Tsukuba found that even very light … Continue reading
How memory works in the brain – at the level of individual cells
Say you meet an old friend at the train station. She is standing about a metre ahead of you, and on the tracks to your right a train has just pulled into the station. Behind your friend you see a … Continue reading
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