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Category: Neuroscience
Researchers from the University of Oxford show that aversive memories in the fruit fly are dependent on a tiny cluster of neurons, and demonstrate that such memories can be implanted by using light to manipulate the cells' activity.
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Category: Neuroscience
UC Davis researchers show that retrieval of unconscious memories involves engagement of the hippocampus, and can be detected in subtle eye movements
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Category: Neuroscience
A new study shows that remembering the past and imagining future events activate distinct subsystems within a core brain network
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Category: Neuroscience
Memory has intrigued us for millenia, and is today one of the most active areas of neuroscience research. Much of this research has aimed to understand how memories are laid down, and a picture of how this happens is beginning...
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Category: Neuroscience
UCL researchers report that they can decode the activity of the hippocampus to accurately predict an individual's exact location within a simple virtual reality environment.
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Category: Neuroscience
The first evidence of LTP-induced large-scale reorganization of neural networks
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Category: Neuroscience
More than 100 years ago, Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, proposed a mechanism called repression, whereby desires and impulses are actively pushed into the unconscious mind. For Freud, repression was a defence mechanism - the repressed memories are often...
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Category: Memory
Despite occuring only rarely, amnesia (or memory loss) has featured often in Hollywood films for almost a century. By 1926, at least 10 silent films which used amnesia as a plot device had been made; more recent productions, such as...
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Category: Neuroscience
Researchers from Vanderbilt University have demonstrated that the contents of visual working memory can be accurately predicted by decoding neural activity in the visual cortex
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Category: Memory
Most of us have experienced the vague feeling of knowing something without having any memory of learning it. This phenomenon is commonly known as a "gut feeling" or "intuition"; more accurately though, it is described as implicit or unconscious recognition...
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