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Long-term memory is not an ‘on/off’ switch, it’s formed by cascade of molecular timers: Study

B rain researchers long knew that the model for studying memory oversimplified the complex processes that the brain uses to ...
Forbes

Short Vs. Long Term Memory: Why You Remember Your Birthday But Not Where You Left Your Keys

Rather than holding information in specific areas of the brain, our memories are represented by the connections between neurons, called synapses. According to a recent study from the Salk Institute in ...

How the Brain Chooses What to Remember and What to Forget

Long-term memory emerges from a sequence of molecular programs that sort, stabilize, and reinforce important experiences.
Nanowerk

Nanowire networks can exhibit both short- and long-term memory like the human brain

(Nanowerk News) An international team led by scientists at the University of Sydney has demonstrated nanowire networks can exhibit both short- and long-term memory like the human brain. The research ...
New Scientist

Your short-term memory can be unreliable after just a few seconds

You can misremember something just seconds after it happened, reframing events in your mind to better fit with your own preconceptions. Our brains probably do this in an effort to make sense of the ...
The Scientist

Short-lived Molecules Support Long-term Memory

For a memory to be consolidated long term, specific synapses connecting neurons must be strengthened, which requires the presence of certain proteins. Yet, some of these proteins and their mRNAs have ...
The New York Times

Now, What Was I Looking For?

Why your short-term memory falters, and how to make it better. Credit...Joyce Lee for The New York Times Supported by By Caroline Hopkins Q: Some thoughts vanish from my brain as soon as I think of ...