Neuroscience
Pupil size in sleep reveals how memories are processed
Cornell University researchers have found that the pupil is key to understanding how, and when, the brain forms strong, long-lasting memories.
Jan 1, 2025
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Psychological Phenomena: News and Research on Memory, Long-Term
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Neuroscience
Breathing coordinates brain rhythms for memory consolidation during sleep
Just as a conductor coordinates different instruments in an orchestra to produce a symphony, breathing coordinates hippocampal brain waves to strengthen memory while we sleep, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.
Dec 16, 2024
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Neuroscience
Neuroscientists discover a new pathway to forming long-term memories in the brain
Researchers from Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience have discovered a new pathway to forming long-term memories in the brain. Their work, published in Nature Neuroscience, suggests that long-term memory can form ...
Dec 5, 2024
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Psychology & Psychiatry
The main events: How scenes from life shape consciousness and build memories
Life is a series of small events: making morning coffee, letting the dog out, opening a laptop, letting the dog back in. Add them all up and you have a full day. Our brains are committed to observing and processing the events ...
Nov 19, 2024
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Neuroscience
How neural networks help the brain predict future events
On 17 October 2024, Martina Lamberti publicly defended her Ph.D. thesis, "Know the Past to See the Future: Memory and Prediction in In-Vitro Cortical Neurons," at the University of Twente. Her research sheds light on how ...
Oct 17, 2024
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Garage sale study provides yet another reason to sleep on it before making an important decision
Conventional wisdom holds that people are easily seduced by first impressions, and there's solid scientific evidence that initial snap judgments are hard to shake—even when they turn out to be inaccurate.
Sep 23, 2024
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Processing traumatic memories during sleep leads to changes in the brain associated with improvement in PTSD symptoms
Currently, the first-choice treatment for PTSD is exposure-based psychotherapy, where therapists help rewire the emotions associated with the traumatic memory in the patient's brain, shifting from fear and arousal to a more ...
Aug 7, 2024
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study finds men and women process memory in different ways
The Translational Mechanisms of Fear Memory Lab, at the Institut de Neurociències (INc-UAB), published an article published in Science Advances describing the detection of new neuronal circuits involved in fear memory that ...
Jul 11, 2024
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Medical research
Research uncovers 'molecular glue' that helps ensure memory formation and stabilization
Whether it's a first-time visit to a zoo or when we learned to ride a bicycle, we have memories from our childhoods kept well into adult years. But what explains how these memories last nearly an entire lifetime?
Jun 26, 2024
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Neuroscience
The crystallization of memory: Study reveals how practice forms new memory pathways in the brain
"Practice makes perfect" is no mere cliché, according to a new study from researchers at The Rockefeller University and UCLA. Instead, it's the recipe for mastering a task, because repeating an activity over and over solidifies ...
May 15, 2024
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