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A paper published in the latest issue of the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science suggests that not talking about a memory does nothing in terms of helping people forget that it ever existed. In other words, ignoring it will not make it go away.
If this discovery turns out to be true, then certain therapies... |
6 February 2012
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific research, it would appear that children are perfectly capable of remembering that an object existed, even if they don't see it anymore. They cannot remember details on an object that was hidden from view, but they do know that it still exists.
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20 December 2011
10:16 GMT |
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For people suffering from diverse conditions – including addictions, post-traumatic stress disorder and phobias – could potentially benefit from the results of a new study. Researchers have shown that behaviors associated with a stimulus can be changed in a very simple way.
All healthcare experts need t... |
7 November 2011
09:33 GMT |
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In a research paper published in the Association for Psychological Science's (APS) journal Current Directions in Psychological Science, scientists explain that, under certain conditions, forgetting things may in fact augment memory as a whole, rather than hamper it. Forgetfulness is an often-overlooked component... |
19 October 2011
09:38 GMT |
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In a study that is bound to entice numerous moral and ethical controversies, scientists at the University of California in Berkeley (UCB) announce the development of a new technique that allows them to tap into the human brain's video feed, hijacking the signal for display on computer monitors.
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23 September 2011
03:45 GMT |
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In a new study University of Oregon investigators conducted on lab rats, the team revealed that experiential learning is indeed the best way to imprint solid, long-duration memories into the brain. This finding could have significant implications for the human brain as well, since rats were used because they are such... |
23 August 2011
09:51 GMT |
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A new investigation by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, demonstrates that the human brain is not always primed to learn new things, and absorb information.The team that conducted the study showed that activity patterns in an area of the brain called the parahippocampal cor... |
19 August 2011
05:42 GMT |
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One of the hallmarks of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is the fact that most patients tend to develop strong, long-lasting memories of the negative experiences that triggered the condition. Experts recently managed to discover the mechanism that boosts the formation of such adverse memories.According to resear... |
2 August 2011
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According to the conclusions of a new study, it would appear that a common form of medication can be used to successfully help patients who want to quit cocaine. The investigation was only carried out on lab animals, but scientists believe they could devise a way of applying it to humans as well. The work was carried... |
18 July 2011
08:57 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it would appear that transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) can reduce forgetfulness in patients considerably. The reason why this happens is because the technique can literally reduce the level competition between memories. In previous studies, experts determined that several sp... |
11 July 2011
03:59 GMT |
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For a long time, people have been saying that consuming large amounts of alcohol leads to memory impairments because the stuff kills brain cells called neurons. A new investigation into the issue shows that this is not the case, and highlights the actual mechanisms that hinge memory.
For many people who drink, the... |
9 July 2011
06:45 GMT |
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Neuroscientists at the University of California in Berkeley (UCB) say they now know the neural pathways that fear uses to burn memories into our brains. The work holds promise for developing methods of allowing people to forget traumatic events and experiences. The fact that extremely stressful situations sear themse... |
15 June 2011
09:16 GMT |
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A new study adds to the growing body of evidence showing that the brain is better equipped to remember distant memories when it's in a particular state. Contrary to popular belief, we do not always remember things with the same clarity and detail every moment of the day. There are specific times when recalling t... |
14 June 2011
10:03 GMT |
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In a new study, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology determined that the most memorable photographs people are make are those containing other people, and not scenic lakes and landscapes. In fact, the latter are utterly forgettable, the team says.As such, it may be best for people to start photogr... |
24 May 2011
10:47 GMT |
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A group of investigators with the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) announces a discovery that could have significant implications for people who have experienced various forms of abuse, in the sense that these individuals could have their harmful memories weakened.The work now being conducted at the uni... |
28 April 2011
04:00 GMT |
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Generally speaking, people appear to be doing a really bad job at assessing what they learned in a given situation. Their accuracy leaves a lot to be desired, say the authors of a new study into the issue. Interestingly, it's this type of poor self-analysis that oftentimes leads people to make bad judgment calls... |
23 March 2011
11:41 GMT |
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A group of scientists from the Duke University Medical Center was recently able to gain more insight into the mechanisms the human brain uses to memorize events that happened in the past. The findings could be used to create new treatments for a host of psychological and mental disorders.Years ago, experts discovered... |
21 March 2011
11:07 GMT |
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A particular class of neurons, that is wiped out during the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, has just been derived from human embryonic stem cells by a team of experts in the United States. The discovery is groundbreaking, as it could provide researchers with the necessary tools to address this form of demen... |
5 March 2011
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A group of investigators announces the discovery of a new possible method of boosting people's memory. The catch is that the technique involves injecting a genetically-engineered virus directly into the human brain. As such, those who are bad with names, or who easily forget things, might want to wait for a litt... |
4 March 2011
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In a groundbreaking new discovery, researchers at the University of Royal Holloway in London, the United Kingdom, found out that the cerebellum plays an important role in the storage of memories required for important mental skills. Such skills include for example driving. The general rules of the road, once assimila... |
10 February 2011
10:34 GMT |
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Scientists now believe that memories can be protected more easily from interferences by reactivating them during sleep. For example, if you want to remember a song, you could listen to it while awake, and then someone would play it back to you during sleep. This would ensure the memory is firm.Investigations have dem... |
25 January 2011
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Scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) say that they have recently discovered a new potential target for therapies against anxiety disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), memory-impairment conditions, and also for diseases such as Alzheimer's.The finding could have a wi... |
7 January 2011
07:54 GMT |
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Scientists already knew that sleep plays a very important role in the development of memories, so three researchers affiliated with the Department of Adult Mental Health, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan, carried out a study focusing on the link between sl... |
8 December 2010
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A new study suggests that playing Tetris, and possibly other quick moving visual puzzles, could be used to treat flashbacks that are associated with issues like Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.Researchers have showed upsetting bits of film to 60 subjects and then asked them to note down how often they experienced flas... |
15 November 2010
13:41 GMT |
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Scientists knew that sleep makes memories stronger, by fixating them in the brain and allowing an easy access later on, but a new research found out the reason why we sleep almost a third of our lives, and why do our bodies need so much sleep.Jessica D. Payne of the University of Notre Dame, and Elizabeth A. Kensinge... |
13 November 2010
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Each person has their own personal memories, but some of these memories are a lot stronger, and also more intense, than others. These are called emotional memories, and they manifest themselves for example when you're transported back to childhood at the smell of a familiar aroma. Past events and experiences tha... |
6 August 2010
09:38 GMT |
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The extent to which emotions influence memories has been the subject of a large number of studies, carried out over the past few years. Scientists are very curious to learn more about this aspect, given the importance this has in everyday life. Memories are used for example in the justice system, where witnesses give... |
30 June 2010
05:26 GMT |
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Children have notoriously curious and absorbing minds, and they can easily remember words and things that their parents forget after a while. A new investigation demonstrates that parents should exercise extra caution when, for example, disciplining their children, especially when it comes to using their hands to mak... |
12 May 2010
10:59 GMT |
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A group of scientists announces that it was able to identify a genetic mechanism in the brain of elderly mice that could hold the key to allowing them to remember forgotten information. The mechanism could even theoretically be found in humans. If this is indeed the case, then it could be that we could witness the bi... |
7 May 2010
05:52 GMT |
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It's a widely known fact that women tend to be more forgetful during pregnancies. Many have reported such feelings as they were carrying babies, and now a new scientific study lends some additional substrate to their claims. Experts have recently determined that elevated levels of pregnancy-related hormones inde... |
24 March 2010
11:06 GMT |
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Researchers looking into the very foundations of the mental processes and connections that allow us to memorize and remember things say that the time when a new memory is formed is just as important as the memory itself. In other words, it's not only what's in a scene, or the scene itself, that counts on ho... |
16 March 2010
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Experts investigating the way in which our brain forms, stores and recalls memory were recently able to demonstrate through imaging techniques that these events leave a trace in the cortex. The real finding is that this trace can be viewed with existing equipment. The discovery could lead to a better understanding of... |
12 March 2010
04:08 GMT |
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Researchers from a Swedish university have recently demonstrated a clear connection between the number of instances in which children received anesthesia and their ability to learn new things. It would appear that this cognitive function is considerably impaired by the chemical cocktails that make up anesthesia drugs... |
8 March 2010
16:01 GMT |
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Physicists announce in a new study that they were able to prove experimentally that thermal fluctuations occurring randomly in magnetic memories can actually be put to good use. Generally, heat is regarded as the main enemy of these forms of computer memory, but the research group showed that their influence could be... |
1 March 2010
09:54 GMT |
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Neuroscientists have recently discovered a new brain mechanism that allows for old memories to be erased, so as to make room for additional ones. According to investigators, it could be that experts could soon create drugs to exploit this mechanism, so as to make people forget certain things, such as past experiences... |
19 February 2010
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A new scientific research has revealed another hidden ability our immune systems have. The work evidenced the mechanism employed by our body's natural defense mechanism in “learning” the identity of a pathogen, a feature that allows immune cells to respond faster and more effective the next time arou... |
29 January 2010
16:11 GMT |
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Over the years, sleep research has provided scientists with a wealth of knowledge on the processes that go on inside our brains as we rest. One of the most important things going on during sleep is the fact that memories get consolidated, as do the important experiences we underwent the previous day. Now, it would ap... |
13 January 2010
16:01 GMT |
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Spatial-sequence synesthesia is a special form of the condition, in which people tend to see all numerical sequences they come across as visual patterns. Synesthesia is a very hot and debated topic, since some of the people who have it say that they wouldn't get rid of it even if they could, while others would g... |
15 December 2009
14:01 GMT |
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In a new set of experiments, scientists were able to stop the recollection of harmful memories in test participants, without the use of any mind-altering drugs. The new work, in addition to promising new therapies for people trying to get past traumatizing experiences, also challenges established scientific knowledge... |
10 December 2009
05:51 GMT |
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We've all experienced this at least once – smell something and get instantly transported back into our childhood. Strong memories are associated with various smells and situations, a fact which has been known for quite some time. But a new set of studies seems to show that the smells we experience for the ... |
11 November 2009
17:31 GMT |
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In a new study conducted on unsuspecting mice, Swedish researchers at the medical university Karolinska Institutet managed to accomplish a major breakthrough in the field of neuroscience, when they identified a mechanism related to the formation of long-term memories. Their find essentially controls the brain's ... |
10 November 2009
17:31 GMT |
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Though scientists still have no clue why we need to sleep, if we don't, there are always consequences. One of the most severe is the fact that our memory is left in tatters and that we lose our ability to concentrate on the tasks at hand throughout the next day. Now, researchers hope to counteract some of these ... |
22 October 2009
03:43 GMT |
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As evidenced countless times in jails around the world, including the US-operated Guantanamo Bay prison, in Cuba, torture has not yet been completely removed from common practice, when it comes to interrogating prisoners. During the Bush administration, torture was used extensively to collect data from so-called terr... |
22 September 2009
19:31 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of California in Irvine (UCI) have recently demonstrated, in a study on college students, that memories once thought lost actually still reside within the brain. The find was made using advanced brain-imaging techniques, the experts report in the latest issue of the journal Neuron. The ma... |
10 September 2009
19:11 GMT |
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Neurobiologists have known for a long time that new memories accumulated in the brain change the organ's very structure, causing it to change its shape in order to accumulate the knowledge. But exactly how this is done, and where new memories are stored is a puzzle. Now, a groundbreaking new study from experts a... |
13 August 2009
16:51 GMT |
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Experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have demonstrated in a new mouse-model study that the animals that are prevented from remembering data collected during the day while sleeping tend to have “fuzzy” memories the next day, as opposed to mice who were left to sleep undisturbed. The researc... |
25 June 2009
06:54 GMT |
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For quite some time now, experts have wondered how exactly it is that the human brain is able to store memories of single events, and to recall them at a moment's notice. Over the years, they have noticed that the emotional response this type of memories draws from people is almost identical to the one incited b... |
27 May 2009
04:54 GMT |
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One of the most important things that have allowed humans to develop to the stage they've achieved now is the trait of the brain known as short-term memory (STM). Basically, what it does is allow individuals to remember details of what their eyes saw a good few seconds after the image in front of them changed. T... |
29 April 2009
10:12 GMT |
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People often take for granted traits of their brain that have had experts puzzled for generations. That is to say, for example, they don't know exactly how the part of the cortex that deals with memory operates when they need to find the car they parked in a very busy supermarket parking lot. The scientists also... |
27 April 2009
10:13 GMT |
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In most people, their most powerful memories are those of a single event, such as a birth, a funeral, a death, a birthday party, a wedding proposal, and so on. And while everyone knows this, scientists have found it close to impossible until now to understand what exactly is going on inside the brain that allows them... |
19 March 2009
10:16 GMT |
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