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… December 20, 2024 Research Feature From Molecules to Memory On a biological foundation of ions and proteins, the … to new information or activity. The very existence of memory and our ability to retrieve it to guide our … This discovery contradicted the standard theory of memory consolidation, where memories form in the hippocampus before …

… on Brain & Cognition with Sara Aton, PhD Sleep-dependent memory consolidation: oscillations and ensembles Abstract: Our … to two processes in the mouse brain: hippocampal long-term memory formation and visual cortex plasticity. We hypothesize … on Brain & Cognition with Sara Aton, PhD Sleep-dependent memory consolidation: oscillations and ensembles Learning and …

… Investigator in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory Director, RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics … Institute of Technology Research Areas hippocampus , memory consolidation , circuit mapping , neuromodulation , engram , … Disorders Mood Disorders Schizophrenia Sleep Learning and Memory Memory Systems Neural Plasticity Neural Circuits …

… It's just a different kind of activity.” Sleep improves memory and maintenance Wilson investigates how brain makes use of memory to function intelligently in the world. He studies … us. The finding provided support for observations that memory improves with sleep. Years of Wilson’s research have …

… the maze in its sleep – a key process in consolidating its memory. In the new study, several of the scientists involved … these experiments will produce new insights into learning, memory, navigation and cognition by allowing them to not only … Neurobiology in MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory. The collaboration behind the new paper began in …

… lights and pink noise might banish Alzheimer’s, improve memory and more By Helen Thomson, Nature In March 2015, … brain function. Studies have strongly linked brainwaves to memory consolidation during sleep, and implicated them in processing … lights and pink noise might banish Alzheimer’s, improve memory and more hippocampus neurodegeneration gamma …

… in the cortex organize neural oscillations in working memory tasks. He is studying various aspects of the nature of … to learn more about how they encode items retained in memory. Timothy Brawn Matthew Wilson Brawn has worked with a … methods and animal models to study sleep-dependent memory consolidation. In the Wilson lab he studied optogenetic and …