Sentences with phrase «brain store memories»

«Princess Leia» brainwaves help sleeping brain store memories.»

While your kid's in dreamland, her brain stores memories from the day so she can recall them later.

And since the brain stores memories in the strength of connections between neurons, inside the neural net itself, it requires no energy - draining bus.

Neuroscience has also been struggling to find where the brain stores its memories.

«Scientists take step toward mapping how the brain stores memories.»

Not exact matches

When you sleep, your brain literally recharges, shuffling through the day's memories and storing or discarding them (which causes dreams), so that you wake up alert and clear - headed.

When you sleep, your brain literally recharges, shuffling through the day's memories and storing or discarding them (which causes dreams) so that you wake up alert and clearheaded.

According to Scientific American, «downtime replenishes the brain's stores of attention and motivation, encourages productivity and creativity, and is essential to both achieve our highest levels of performance and simply form stable memories in everyday life.»

Exercise could strengthen some of the pathways our brain uses to relay signals for recent events, or boost the size of certain brain regions that are key for learning and storing memories.

Dreams are not stored in your long term memory area in your brain.

Still — it's good to store these delicious little memories in my brain so that they can come screaming back if / when the chance arrives to visit!

It is amazing what a 19 month old brain has stored in its memory about past trauma and abuse that comes out at 5.5 when you finally get the brain organized enough to tell it.

But the cerebral cortex — the part of the brain that has thoughts, stores memories, and controls voluntary muscle movement — only kicks into gear after encountering the world outside the womb.

The brain seems to store memories in new connections between neurons.

This might help answer a question that has long intrigued scientists: How can the human brain store a virtually unlimited number of long - term memories, yet remain severely limited in the information we can hold in our conscious minds at once?

The brain appears not to «overwrite» the old version of the memory, but instead generates and stores multiple (new and old) versions of the same experience.

Elizabeth Elliott wondered if Alzheimer's disease might affect how memories are stored deep in the brain.

The extra attention the offspring received in the enriched environments — nursing, licking and grooming — translated to denser nerve growth in the dentate gyrus, which is in the hippocampus, the brain's memory warehouse believed responsible for learning and storing short - term memories.

Nerve cells in our brains work together in harmony to store and retrieve short - term memory, and are not solo artists as previously thought, Western - led brain research has determined.

UNFORGETTABLE Priya Rajasethupathy has found a tiny molecule that may turn off part of the genome to allow the brain to store long - term memories.

Adam Sachs (left) and Julio Martinez - Trujillo (right) have discovered that nerve cells in the brain work together to store and retrieve short - term memory.

Despite the high intelligence in some, they showed cognitive deficits in working memory, the «scratchpad» where the brain stores and processes temporary memories.

Storing a persistent memory in the brain involves dynamic gene regulation.

«Memtransistor» brings world closer to brain - like computing: Combined memristor and transistor can process information and store memory with one device.»

Short - term memory of events is stored in an area of the brain called the hippocampus.

Several dream researchers have proposed the opposite path, suggesting that dreams originate in the regions that store memories and then connect to visual brain areas.

Researchers are using the sea hare model to learn about individual cells function, discover the chemical pathways controlling various brain activities and to study how memories are processed and stored.

When he repeated it years later, neurons fired in the areas of the brain storing these taste and motor memories.

A new Northwestern Medicine and Hines VA Hospital study shows the voices of loved ones telling the patient familiar stories stored in his long - term memory can help awaken the unconscious brain and speed recovery from the coma.

When Larry Cahill and his colleagues at UC Irvine conducted a series of experiments to track sex differences in the brain's ability to store memories, they came to similar conclusions.

More complex memories, like the recollection of an event that happened to you, are stored in many different areas of the brain.

With these tiny wobbles, the brain can compress memories of time from several seconds down to hundredths of a second — a small enough package to store for later retrieval.

This brain region plays a critical role in learning new information, forming spatial memories and storing short - term memories as long - term ones.

UNDERSTANDING EXACTLY how the brain encodes and stores memories is one of the central, unsolved mysteries in neuroscience.

These experiments are helping scientists zero in on the regions of the brain that store memories of time.

That is why CPR has to be done so soon after a heart attack or drowning — because if the brain is starved of oxygen - rich blood, the neurons die, along with the memories stored therein.

Under this procedure, a patient's brain is cooled to as low as 50 degrees Fahrenheit, which causes electrical activity in neurons to stop — suggesting that long - term memories are stored statically.

Memory involving location is stored in an area of the brain called the hippocampus.

Loss of neurons from the hippocampus, a brain region that processes and stores memories, is a common cause of temporal lobe epilepsy.

Contrary to popular belief, the brain does not store each memory as a single package, like a videotape ready to be played back...

In Nature Medicine today, Wyss - Coray's lab at Stanford and Saul Villeda and co-workers at the University of California, San Francisco, report that parabiosis can rejuvenate another part of the mouse brain, the hippocampus, where memories are made and stored.

Moving through middle age and beyond, the brain develops a vast store of «generic memories» — knowledge of the shared patterns in events or things.

Pavlovian memories Addictive drugs cause dopamine neurons, which synthesize and store the neurotransmitter dopamine, to release it, signaling to other brain areas to take note of the context surrounding the drug — the better to replicate the experience in the future.

The key to gaining that understanding lies in the hippocampus, a small part in the brain that generates, organizes and stores memory.

Illustrations showing the basic operation of NIST's artificial synapse, which could connect processors and store memories in future neuromorphic computers operating like the human brain.

During slow - wave sleep, the hippocampus — a region of the brain that stores recent, episodic memories about discrete events — replays its files for the neocortex, home to more permanent memories.

Nets that stretch across nerve cells in the brain may store long - term memories, scientists proposed this year (SN: 11/14/15, p. 8).

Bees don't have the brain structure, called the hippocampus, thought to store the spatial memories underlying mental maps in humans.

Scientists know that our memories are stored in specific areas of the brain, but there has been some debate over whether a single brain region can store different memories that control opposing behavior.

BRANCHING OUT In 1966, researchers thought that the branching ends of nerve cells (mouse neurons shown) might store memories in the human brain.