Sentences with phrase «mild fear memory»

«When we induced a mild fear memory in the brain, we were able to develop a fast and accurate method of reading it by using AI algorithms,» explains study author Dr. Ben Seymour, of the University of Cambridge's Engineering Department, in a press release.

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Decrease in this specific ecRNA prevented formation of a long - lasting fear memory, where rats learn to associate mild electrical shocks with a particular place.

Researchers used this approach to label memory cells during a fear - conditioning event that involved a mild electric shock to the mouse and then used light to artificially reactive memories at different times.

When the researchers put mice in a cage, gave a mild shock, took them out of that cage and put them back in it the next day, mice who had received adrenaline or fox urine tended to «freeze» in fear - an indicator they associated the cage as the site of a shock - more frequently, suggestive of enhanced memory.