Sentences with phrase «of memory formation»

High soy consumption actually blocks this mechanism of memory formation (4, 5).

A key stage in the molecular cascade of memory formation appears to be the opening of membrane channels through which calcium ions flow.

«Memory improved with the absence of H2A.Z, which was unexpected, since we hypothesized that H2A.Z would be a necessary part of memory formation in normal situations,» Sweatt said.

He speculates that transient electrical signals flip dormant CPEB into their high - activity, prionlike state as part of memory formation.

He knew that a protein called CPEB was involved in strengthening connections between neurons, an essential part of the process of memory formation.

This phenomenon suggests that existing models of memory formation need to be revised, as the researchers propose in a new paper in which they further detail how these «silent engrams» are formed and re-activated.

Karen Akerlof, a visiting scholar at AAAS, discussed how stories are the basis of memory formation and how they fit into human evolution.

While Cortex's drugs boost the strength of neural transmissions, another company, Helicon Therapeutics of San Diego, says it can manipulate the underlying biochemistry of memory formation.

One technique for blanking out the past, developed by Joe Tsien at the Medical College of Georgia, flows from his studies of memory formation.

«The surprise is the discovery of the type of memory formation that was not disrupted by the removal of the grid cell area,» Clark said.

«Rapid eye movement sleep: Keystone of memory formation.»

For their part, Byrne and company will now use these same techniques to try to optimize other aspects of the memory formation process in sea slugs.

It was already known that, for the purposes of memory formation, nitric oxide (NO) is essential for the feedback of information between two nerve cells.

We also focus effort at the level of anatomy to understand the pathways of information flow in the brain for normal learning to occur, and at the behavioral level to probe the complexities of memory formation.

Research on the CREB gene emphasizes the reductionist approach, in which elements of the complex phenomenon of memory formation are reduced to mutations in a single gene and studied in a simple model system, the fruit fly Drosophila

Since the discovery (in a human patient named H.M.) that hippocampal removal can lead to the inability to form new memories, the hippocampus has been studied as one of the primary sites of memory formation in the brain.12 While it has also been known since O'Keefe and Dostrovsky's initial experiments that the hippocampus plays a basic role in spatial navigation, how and why this tiny portion of the brain can host both spatial maps and complex memories has remained poorly understood.

Columbia University biologist Eric Kandel won a Nobel Prize in 2000 for his work on the cellular mechanics of memory formation in Aplysia and mice.

Once there, Josselyn dreamed up an ingeniously elaborate study with Silva to test their «neuronal competition» theory of memory formation.

Dot - counting mice running in a virtual reality maze help scientists uncover mechanisms of memory formation and decision - making.

The discovery that memory improved in the absence of H2A.Z, thought to be an integral part of memory formation, does beg the question of H2A.Z's responsibilities for normal memory formation.

«Neuroscientists build case for new theory of memory formation: Existence of «silent engrams» suggests that existing models of memory formation should be revised.»

Associative learning is thought to involve parallel and distributed mechanisms of memory formation and storage.