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Bad experiences may enhance memory formation about places, according to scientists from the University of Queensland. The…
Certain types of long term memories can be “rewritten” without drugs or surgery, according to a new study that experts say offers hope for sufferers of post traumatic stress disorder. The study, conducted…
Memories, we know, are fallible, and in the case of acts such as this week’s horrific bombings in Boston, this presents particular problems. How can those charged with gathering eyewitness accounts – and…
Objective details given by eyewitness testimony are less likely to be distorted than subjective details, a new study has…
It may seem somewhat intuitive, but learning through observation is one of the most potent ways humans learn a new skill. We see someone moving in a certain way and we copy it. But what happens when the…
Honeybees may have an advantage over other pollinators – caffeine improves performance. The findings, from Newcastle University…
If you could erase your memories, which ones would you choose? As a neuroscientist, one of my raisons d’etre is to achieve, in a way, some form of memory erasure, especially for individuals that suffer…
Chatty updates on Facebook are easier to remember than carefully-worded sentences. Researchers from the University of Warwick…
Have you ever experienced a sudden feeling of familiarity while in a completely new place? Or the feeling you’ve had the exact same conversation with someone before? This feeling of familiarity is, of…
The human brain can only process four chunks of information before confusion sets in. Results of a new analysis contradict…
The brain encodes short-term visual memory with in-sync electrical neural oscillations. Neuroscientists have observed how…
Healthy young adults could boost their cognitive function and working memory by increasing their intake of omega-3 fatty…
The formation of memories may be found in the spatial and temporal relationship between molecules, and when they are active…
We humans use our large brains to make and store maps of our environment; maps we then use everyday for getting around and for recalling where we’ve been. But we are nothing special – many other animals…
Memories influence our behaviour for better or worse. A traumatic incident, experienced once, can darken our lives for ever more. Drug or alcohol addiction – driven by remembered rewards – can render the…
If memory can be defined as “a past that becomes a part of me”, can forgetting be defined as “a past that is no longer a part of me”? Smokers who have abstained for years may not consciously be able to…
Memory is difficult to define without being circular. People often define memory as “something you can remember”. But we cannot deny the existence of a memory when there is no recollection. Sigmund Freud…
Musical instrumental training at a young age may reduce the effects of memory decline and cognitive ageing. A range of cognitive…
“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.” William Gibson, Count…
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