Tag: memory
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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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Edibile knowledge...
Planarian "cannibal" worms eating other trained planarian worms, learn much faster how to behave under certain conditions than other worms who did not eat trained worms! It is like the knowledge of the eaten ones is transferred to the cannibals! (1, 2 - see file "McConnell 1962 _ Planarian worms", 3) This is the startling conclusion…
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Forgetting, remembering, forgetting...
It may seem normal: As we age, we misplace car keys, or can't remember a name we just learned or a meal we just ordered. But University of Florida researchers say memory trouble doesn't have to be inevitable, and they've found a drug therapy that could potentially reverse this type of memory decline. (1) We…
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