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

MDMA Impairs Both the Encoding and Retrieval of Emotional Recollections

Recent findings from clinical and basic research suggests that the stimulant-psychedelic-entactogen ±3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) may specifically modulate emotional processing in humans.
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 ...
EurekAlert!

PolyU initiates cognitive remediation programme using memory encoding strategies to provide early intervention for people with mild cognitive impairment

With its ageing population, the prevalence of dementia in Hong Kong is expected to increase. Healthcare researchers from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have developed an innovative ...
The Conversation

Why two people see the same thing but have different memories

Monash University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Does it ever strike you as odd that you and a friend can experience the same event at the same time, but come away with ...
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 ...