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Category: Neuroscience
THE patterns of brain waves that occur during sleep can predict the likelihood that dreams will be successfully recalled upon waking up, according to a new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience. The research provides the first evidence of...
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Category: Neuroscience
SUZANNE Corkin is a professor of behavioural neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who worked with the famous amnesic patient H.M. for more than 45 years. I interviewed her at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in...
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Category: Neuroscience
A new study shows that apparent motion influence the direction of mental time travel
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Category: Neuroscience
A neuroimaging study by UCL researchers shows that individual memory traces can be decoded and distinguished from one another
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U.S. researchers have used multi-electrode arrays to observe how populations of hippocampal neurons encode and retrieve memory traces
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IN February of this year, Jacopo Annese (above), a neuroanatomist and radiologist at the University of California, San Diego travelled to Boston to take delivery of a brain. For Annese, collecting brains is not unusual - he is, after all,...
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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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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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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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