Sentences with phrase «term memory also»

A new study, published this week in the journal PLoS ONE, adds a new wrinkle by suggesting our short - term memory also may play a role in appetite.
Their short - term memory also improved.
Short - term memory also comes into play in another learning game I tried, because it is a problem area for many people who struggle with mental disabilities.
More recent work has revealed that the establishment of long - lasting synaptic plasticity and long - term memory also requires the removal of inhibitory constraints.

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And now there's another reason to grab your morning cup of coffee: A recent study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience suggests that caffeine may also boost our long - term memory.
Besides being completely delicious and easy to keep on your desk, blueberries have also been linked to improved short - term memory in animal studies.
Importantly, that little chemical also helps your long - term memory.
We find them in the treatise On Divine Names by Dionysius the Areopagite, where God is true Being and Goodness and Beauty, but also in the triadic analogies explored by Augustine in his treatise On the Trinity, where God is compared to Memory and Intellect and Will, as well as in the triads of nouns fashioned by theologians inventing terms for God in new languages.
In light of the recently reemphasized continuities between the parts of the Bible and between Judaism and Christianity, and also under the impetus of the awful memory of the Holocaust, many Christians are seeking words for the two parts of the Bible that will replace the terms new and old.
«It's having short - term memory, but it's also being ready with technique and preparation for the next play, then the next play,» Gilmore said.
Covering everything from the biology of breastfeeding to breastfeeding as a feminist issue, this book also includes comments from mothers, father, professionals and the breastfed children themselves about the concerns, reasons and wonderful memories of breastfeeding long - term.
Politics is too often thought about purely in «rational» terms, as a function of interests — the concept of «myth» is helpful to understand what role memory, imagination, and passion can also play in politics.
Ai, a chimpanzee, also reveals a lightning - fast short - term memory for numbers.
«Using that same choir analogy, you can start perceiving some sounds that have a rhythm, a tune and chords that are related to each other: in sum, short - term memories,» said Martinez - Trujillo, who is also an associate professor at Western's Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry.
The research, funded by the Medical Research Council and published in Translational Psychiatry, also show that female cannabis smokers are potentially more susceptible to short - term memory loss than males.
The research also found that females were more vulnerable than males to impairment in short term memory after smoking cannabis.
Hackermüller suspects that non-coding RNAs have an important function at the epigenetic level, for example as a type of cellular long - term memory: «This could also explain why the health effects caused by exposure to hazardous environmental substances often do not emerge until years later.»
Josselyn realized then that CREB is not only necessary for normal long - term memory; it can also act as a memory booster.
Proteins that researchers think are key to long - term memory formation also move genetic material between cells in both mice and flies
Whereas hard drives store large amounts of long - term data, RAM — also called «solid state» memory — retains information outside the hard drive, where it can be accessed quickly and repeatedly.
The receptors are also crucial to reconsolidating a memory — moving it from its storage area in long - term memory to brain regions that handle short - term memory.
Typified by exhaustion that commonly worsens with physical, mental, or emotional exertion, the condition is also often characterized by short - term memory and concentration problems and profound fatigue that sleep does not relieve.
New research at Rice University suggests actin filaments that control the shape of neuron cells may also be the key to the molecular machinery that forms and stores long - term memories.
Cook and his colleagues also tested longer term memory — which is critical to helping these marine mammals recall and locate good hunting spots.
Visual arts classes also showed a benefit: children in these classes had significantly improved visual and spatial short - term memory compared to students who had not received any supplementary lessons.
Last year, the researchers discovered that ISRIB also restored long - term memory in mice with concussions.
This effect was most serious on the high - sugar diet, which also showed an impairment of early learning for both long - term and short - term memory.
It worked — but also left him unable to recall specific events or commit new experiences to long - term memory.
The nervous systems in each arm also include loops in the neurons (recurrent connections, in the jargon) that may give the arm a simple form of short - term memory, although it is not known what this system does for the octopus.
PCs use a hard disk drive, for example, to store large amounts of data for the long term and Random Access Memory (RAM)-- also called «solid state» memory — to retain data outside the hard drive, where it can be accessed quickly and repeaMemory (RAM)-- also called «solid state» memory — to retain data outside the hard drive, where it can be accessed quickly and repeamemory — to retain data outside the hard drive, where it can be accessed quickly and repeatedly.
The curve may also explain why some children learn language faster than others: they might have been exposed to more words or have better short - term memory.
They also had weaker long - term antibody memory responses.
The test is designed to assess not only fine motor skills, but also short - term memory and cognitive processing.
This research team also suggests that the segmentation of the lived episodes in packages or pieces defined by «frontier events» is a first step towards the storage of these memories in long - term memory.
Memory tests may also be limited in terms of detecting dementia in ethnic minorities, says Jed Levine, executive vice president of the Alzheimer's Association — New York City Chapter, an advocacy group.
The team also showed that blocking inputs to the amygdala from the hippocampus during memory testing impaired short - term memory performance (tested on the second and eighth days)-- but not distant memory (tested on days 15 and 22)-- whereas blocking inputs to the amygdala from the cortex showed the opposite pattern.
«We anticipate that this vaccine may have long - term memory immune response as other DNA vaccines also have achieved such a goal,» Huang said.
Loss of long - term memory for specific learned experiences is a hallmark of early Alzheimer's disease (AD) that is also exhibited by mice genetically engineered to develop AD - like symptoms.
The hippocampus is responsible for both our short - term and long - term memory, and also for spatial navigation.
«Scientists knew that Arc was involved in long - term memory, because mice lacking the Arc protein could learn new tasks, but failed to remember them the next day,» said Dr. Finkbeiner, who is also a professor of neurology and physiology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), with which Gladstone is affiliated.
«This discovery is important not only because it solves a long - standing mystery on the role of Arc in long - term memory formation, but also gives new insight into the homeostatic scaling process itself — disruptions in which have already been implicated in a whole host of neurological diseases,» said Dr. Finkbeiner.
To test this possibility, the researchers first gave mild shocks to mice in a cage while also suppressing their ability to make the proteins that normally cement long - term memories.
His team also showed that memories of an event form at the same time in the brain's short - term and long - term storage areas, rather than moving to long - term storage later on.
Also in the department of psychology, Geoffrey Woodman studies how electrical signals recorded from the scalp reveal cognitive processes like attention and short - term memory, and he has extended this to research with monkeys so that he can locate the sources of the signals.
The study also concluded that deactivating Sp3 restored the ability for the mice to form long - term memories.
Also during sleep, information is uploaded and consolidated into our long - term memories.
I'm also noticing in our members at Parsley that phones and computers have led to a never - before - seen level of distraction — so many people are having issues concentrating that it's affecting short - term memory.
«So we also worry about brain damage — and with multiple episodes of heavy drinking, that damage can have long - term consequences for learning and memory
The increase in levels of GCSF is significant, because the study also revealed that long - term coffee treatment improves memory in mice with Alzheimer's.
In fact, when you eat fat - rich foods, your brain not only gets a signal that your body is satisfied but also forms long - term memories of the experience, according to new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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