MIT study: Maturity brings richer memories
...n each one before, and if so, how vividly did they recall the scene" Ofen then went back to the brain activation patterns. In both children and adults, several areas in the PFC and the medial temporal lobe (MTL) showed higher activation at the time when subjects studied a scene they would later remember....Research study describes the role part of the brain plays in memory
...fers from other types of memories that allow us to recall effective or emotionally-charged data, or carry out processes such as riding a bicycle or playing an instrument. Declarative memory allows us to remember things such as specific moments of our lives, names of people, what we ate for lunch, the capita...Neuronal activity gives clues to working memory
... the brain's memory centers sheds light on how you recall your grocery list, where you laid your keys, and a...are uncovering the secrets of a form of short-term recall known as "working memory." "We've now identified a mechanism that can organize the activity of gro...UCLA/Toronto researchers unlock key to memory storage in brain
...emory. Next they tested the mouse's ability to recall a specific cage it had visited before. The cage w...l with similar situations in the future. What we recall helps us learn from our past experiences and better shape our lives." ...Sleep enforces the temporal sequence in memory
...n a control condition no sleep was allowed. Later, recall was tested by presenting one word and asking which one came before and which one came after during learning. Sleep was found to enhance word recall, but only when the students were asked to reproduce the learned words in forward direction. This fin...Maternal beef diet could impact sperm counts, UR study suggests
...nsumption. Swan acknowledged that the mothers beef recall is subject to error, although pregnancy is usually a time of heightened awareness. "This study must be replicated to confirm our findings," Swan said. "One way to determine if prenatal exposure to anabolic steroids is responsible for a change in sp...Rutgers survey examines public responses to the recent spinach recall
...n September 2006. The broad scale of the resulting recall and related media attention provided a unique oppo...Food Policy Institute (FPI) to study the U.S. food recall system. The results of this study were published today on FPI's web site, http://foodpolicyinstitut...Imaging pinpoints brain regions that 'see the future'
Human memory, the ability to recall vivid mental images of past experiences, has been ...nding a birthday party, participants were asked to recall a related event from their own past; to envision themselves experiencing such an event in their futu...Recurrence of a flu pandemic similar to infamous 1918 flu could kill 62 million
...m a flu pandemic. Although many people might still recall the pandemics of 1968 and 1957, it is the infamous 1918-1920 pandemic--and the possibility of a recurrence on that scale--that causes the most trepidation. Strangely, researchers still don't know exactly how many people died from this particular...Memories: It's all in the packaging, scientists say
...arch may help to explain why sometimes people only recall parts of an experience such as a car accident, and yet vividly recall all of the details of a similar experience. In experiments using functional magnetic resonance ima...NASA snow data helps maintain nation's largest, oldest bison herd
Grainy photographs of America's Old West recall a time when large bison herds migrated across wide prairie lands, 30 million strong, with the changing seasons determining their path and destination. Now, NASA satellite data and computer modeling and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) informatio...Scientists find a key to immune system's ability to remember
...memory bank. Its ability to accurately catalog and recall long past encounters with viruses, bacteria and other pathogens is why we only get the measles or chicken pox once, and is why exposure to deactivated virus particles in vaccines confers protection from disease. But how that memory system works -- ho......ark was the same." To analyse the ants' powers of recall an ambiguous situation was set up. Ants were trained to search for food between two cylinders of different sizes and then tested with the training cylinders replaced by two cylinders of the same size. Would ants know which cylinder is which? They wer...How did our ancestors' minds really work?
...to employ both strategies. However, if the type of recall task is designed so that the two strategies are in opposition, then some species (e.g. fish, rats and dogs) have a preference for locational strategies, while others (e.g. toads, chickens and children) favor those which use distinctive features. Un...Why are there so many weeds in your garden this year?
...lations exhibit cyclic oscillations. Everybody can recall a summer where mosquitoes hindered attempts at al fresco dining. These cycles can be produced by climatic conditions or by internal feedback mechanisms. However, in contrast with studies of insect and animal populations, little attention has been dir...Sleep strengthens memories and makes them resistant to interfering information
...ho slept between learning and testing were able to recall more of the original words they had learned earlier. The beneficial influence of sleep was particularly marked when participants were presented with the challenge of "interference"--competing word-pair information--just prior to testing. A follow-up ...ACS weekly press package — May 1st, 2006
...The Magic Nano affair,reportedly the first product recall in the rapidly emerging nanomaterialsindustry, stands as a wake-up call for hundreds of other companies hoping tosteward their products to market. Chemical & EngineeringNews (C&EN) features the topic in a <ahref="http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverst...Asleep or awake we retain memory
...pending on the type of learning, and the subjects' recall abilities. These elements suggest active processing of the newly formed mnemonic traces, which could occur at the same time as other cognitive tasks. More generally, this study from the ULg Cyclotron Research Centre demonstrates for the first time th...Doubling of US science funding announced in State of the Union Address
...tional Academy of Sciences, said that he could not recall any president in recent times using his annual address to Congress to provide such a sharp focus on America's physical science and technology enterprise. "There is little doubt that the United States is still the world's leader in science and technol...Virginia Tech researcher examining malignant melanoma in horses
...e people are reminded of every Christmas when they recall the Gifts of the Magi brought to the Christ-child. Frankincense oil is a fragrant botanical oil distillate made from fermented plants, explains Robertson, who adds that it contains hundreds of constituents, including boswellic acid, a component that ...