How the hippocampus coordinates memory encoding and retrieval

A team of scientists from the Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research (CNIR) at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has ...
Nature

Reversible neural inactivation reveals hippocampal participation in several memory processes

Studies of patients and animals with brain lesions have implicated the hippocampal formation in spatial, declarative/relational and episodic types of memory. These ...
Nature

Excitatory Transmission to the Lateral Habenula Is Critical for Encoding and Retrieval of Spatial Memory

The lateral habenula (LHb) is viewed as a relay between the limbic system, the basal ganglia (BG), and monoaminergic neurons of the midbrain. If a prominent role has been evidenced in BG-mediated ...
The Economist

Advances in physical storage and retrieval made the cloud possible

ON September 14th 1956 IBM announced the first commercial computer to use a magnetic hard disk for storage. Weighing in at about 1,000 kilograms, the 305 RAMAC (random access method of accounting and ...
TechSpot

AI supercharges DNA storage's data retrieval, making it 3,200 times faster

Forward-looking: Researchers around the world are embracing DNA-based storage right now. Mixing digital data and biology could bridge the best of both worlds, though a few challenges are still slowing ...
ZDNet

Microsoft: This is world's first automated DNA data storage, retrieval system

Microsoft has unveiled an automated DNA storage and retrieval system that could one day replace optical-storage systems like Facebook's Blue-ray disc-based cold storage. Microsoft believes synthetic ...