Tag Archives: memory

Several brain regions help us anticipate what’s going to happen next

Posted on April 30, 2021 by Amy McDermott

If you watch a movie clip on repeat, many areas of your brain begin to anticipate upcoming events onscreen, according to a recent study published in eLife. The first time you see the clip, your brain forms a distinctive neural … Continue reading →

The hippocampus has brief but critical role in early task learning

Posted on September 4, 2020 by Amy McDermott

How the brain learns new tasks is among the biggest and oldest questions in neuroscience. A recent study in Nature Neuroscience offers a new, potentially key part of the answer: the dorsal hippocampus is involved in the earliest stages of … Continue reading →

Categories: Journal Club | Neuroscience | Tagged Alzheimer's disease, chemogenetics, decision-making, dorsal hippocampus, hippocampus, learning, memory, neuron | Leave a comment

Journal Club: Neurons fire in sync, helping elucidate the biological basis of learning

Posted on May 17, 2019 by Amber Dance

Our brains change as we learn. But how exactly does a cluster of neurons change their activity or connections? It seems the phenomenon is due, at least in part, to neurons starting to fire in sync, according to a recent … Continue reading →

Categories: Cell Biology | Journal Club | Neuroscience | Tagged learning, maze, memory, neurons, plasticity, prefrontal cortex, rat | Leave a comment

Journal Club: Tracking memories in fruit fly brains

Posted on April 13, 2017 by Carolyn Beans

Memories help animals make predictions. A honeybee may remember that the smell of orange blossoms means nectar is nearby. But sometimes memories require updating. “If you know that your fridge is a good source of food, and you go to … Continue reading →

Journal Club: Finding new ways to store higher-density information with ferroelectric materials

Posted on September 7, 2016 by Stephen Ornes

Recent findings suggest early proof of principle for a new way to read, write and erase information in much smaller areas than conventional memory. The method entails ferroelectric thin films, which store information using the domains’ polarization directions like the … Continue reading →

Categories: Applied Physical Sciences | Journal Club | Physics | Tagged domains, ferroelectric, memory, tem | Leave a comment