Showing posts with label memory/learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memory/learning. Show all posts
Monday, April 01, 2024

When memories get complex, sleep comes to their rescue

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Here I point to a PNAS article by Lutz et al. and a commentary on the work by Schechtman. Here is the Lutz. et al. abstract: Significance R...
Monday, March 04, 2024

Brains creating stories of selves: the neural basis of autobiographical reasoning

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We all create our experienced selves from autobiographical reasoning based on remembered events in stories from our lives. In the journal So...
Monday, January 30, 2023

How sleep shapes what we remember and forget.

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I have found monitoring the quality of my sleep to be a fascinating and useful activity. I use both the Oura ring and Apple watch to monit...
Friday, December 23, 2022

A smart phone intervention that enhances memory in older adults.

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Martin et al.  offer an open source article that describes a smartphone intervention that enhances real-world memory and promotes differenti...
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

The neurophysiology of consciousness - neural correlates of qualia

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This is a post for consciousness mavens.Tucker, Luu, and Johnson have offered a neurophyiological model of consciousness, Neurophysiological...
Friday, November 11, 2022

Sleep preferentially consolidates negative aspects of human emotional memory

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The Nov. 1, 2022 issue of PNAS has a special feature on Sleep, Brain, and Cognition. A large body of research suggests that sleep benefits ...
Monday, October 17, 2022

Musical rhythm training improves short-term memory for faces

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From Zanto et al :   Significance Musical training can improve numerous cognitive functions associated with musical performance. Yet, t...
Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Lasting improvements in seniors’ working and long-term memory with repetitive neuromodulation

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From Grover et al. , an open source article in which details of their transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) protocols are give...
Monday, September 05, 2022

Animals (including us) conjure model-based structures from random events

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Superstitious learning is usually thought to be accounted for by conditioned association, but Jin et al. now show that monkeys can develop ...
Friday, August 05, 2022

Dissecting and improving motor skill acquisition in older adults

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 From the introduction of Elvira et al. (open source): We designed a study intended to identify (i) the main factors leading to differen...
Wednesday, August 03, 2022

Motor learning without movement

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Fascinating work from Kim et al. on the influence of the prediction errors that are essential in calibrating actions of our predictive mind...
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Friday, July 15, 2022

How the organization of generalized knowledge promotes memory.

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From Wing et al. : Significance What we remember is shaped by what we already know. For example, remembering the angelfish from a recent ...
Wednesday, March 16, 2022

How exercise supports the brain

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From Leiter et al. "Selenium mediates exercise-induced adult neurogenesis and reverses learning deficits induced by hippocampal injury...
Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Predictions help neurons, and the brain, learn

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From the PNAS Journal Club , a review of a publication by Luczak et. al. that suggest that neurons might be able to predict their own futur...
Friday, January 14, 2022

Unlocking adults’ implicit statistical learning by cognitive depletion

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Smalle et al. make the fascinating observation that inhibition of our adult cognitive control system by non-invasive brain stimulation can ...
Wednesday, January 05, 2022

Higher performance and fronto-parietal brain activity following active versus passive learning

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From a brief open source PNAS report by Stillesjö et al. that has a nice graphic of the fMRI data supporting their observations: We here d...
Friday, December 10, 2021

Temporal Self-Compression

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Brietzke and Meyer (open source) provide behavioral and neural evidence that our past and future selves are compressed as they move away fr...
Friday, November 19, 2021

Drifting nerve assemblies can maintain persistent memories

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A prevailing model has been that a memory in our brains is stored in a specific set of nerve connections, that, like a book in a library, st...
Wednesday, November 03, 2021

People mistake the internet’s knowledge for their own

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Fascinating experiments from Adrian Ward:     Significance In the current digital age, people are constantly connected to online informati...
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Tuesday, June 01, 2021

Watching brain regions that help us anticipate what's going to happen next.

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A primary function of the brain is to adaptively use past experience to generate expectations aboutevents that are likely to occur in the fu...