Category: Memory
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You. Everywhere. [Thinking is about Thinking Everything]
When asked to visualize your childhood home, you can probably picture not only the house you lived in, but also the buildings next door and across the street. MIT neuroscientists have now identified two brain regions that are involved in creating these panoramic memories. These brain regions help us to merge fleeting views of our…
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New neurons. Old neurons…
Buried deep underneath the folds of the cerebral cortex, neural stem cells in the hippocampus continue to generate new neurons, inciting a struggle between new and old as the new attempts to gain a foothold in memory-forming center of the brain. [tip: we do not know where and how memory is stored but anyway] Researchers…
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Remembering history…
Americans recognize 'past presidents' who never were, study finds: among the names that many Americans mistakenly identify as belonging to a past president of the United States, finds a new study by memory researchers. [1] But what if we all remembered false facts as history? What if we all forgot true facts as history? Wouldn’t…
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Remember. Forget. Consciously. Unconsciously.
Some stressful experiences - such as chronic childhood abuse - are so traumatic, the memories hide like a shadow in the brain and can't be consciously accessed. Eventually, suppressed memories can cause debilitating psychological problems. Scientists have discovered how and where the brain stores those stressful memories and how to retrieve them. The findings could…
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