Influential models of visual working memory treat each item to be stored as an independent unit and assume that there are no interactions between items. However, real-world displays have structure ...

Despite a century of research, memory encoding in the brain has remained mysterious. Neuronal synaptic connection strengths are involved, but synaptic components are short-lived while memories ...

Where memory is encoded and retrieved: New findings in a long-standing debate Date: July 28, 2015 Source: Ruhr-Universitaet-Bochum Summary: Are the same regions and even the same cells of the ...

University of Alberta led research may have discovered how memories are encoded in our brains. Scientists understand memory to exist as strengthened synaptic connections among neurons. However ...

Researchers found that post-encoding ripples in the brain enhance emotional memory by improving stimulus identification and arousal, indicating a selective reinforcement of salient events for ...

Find out all you need to know about memories, including how memories form, how they work, why they form, and more.

Inflammation supports selection, differentiation bias, and epigenetic reprogramming of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells to generate innate immune memory.

The internet, social media, and digital technologies have completely transformed the way we establish commercial, personal ...