Category: Memory
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The jasmine… [Can you remember? This was the last day of your life…]
Research finds a new relationship between memory and the ability to incorporate changes into one's understanding of the world. (1) Can you remember? You are in your house. Smelling the jasmine in the veranta. Getting inside. Programming in your old computer. Sleeping when the sun comes up. Dreaming of seeing a galaxy of stars in…
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Memories. Ephemeral. Have you forgotten?
Findings from genetically diverse mice challenge long-held assumptions about how the brain is able to briefly hold onto important information. In a paper in Cell, the researchers present evidence that working memory isn't neatly confined to one brain area, but requires the synchronous activity of at least two. The findings challenge long-held assumptions that working…
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Prison. Happy faces. Memories.
Weighted blankets are a safe and effective intervention in the treatment of insomnia, according to researchers who found that insomnia patients with psychiatric disorders experienced reduced insomnia severity, improved sleep and less daytime sleepiness when sleeping with a weighted chain blanket. (1) Encaged into this cosmos. Surrounded by memories. Enclosed into experience. We like our…
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Aging…
Zachariah Reagh, assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis found that brain activity in older adults isn't necessarily quieter when it comes to memory. "It's just different," he said. What he found out is that while a 20-year-old notes all details in a movie, an…
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Remembering…
A study published in Science Advances found that certain types of materials have a "memory" of how they were processed, stored, and manipulated. Researchers were then able to use this memory to control how a material ages and to encode specific properties that allow it to perform new functions. This creative approach for designing materials…
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