News and information about how the mind works and why memory is such a complex affair.
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Study reveals how the brain divides days into 'movie scenes'
A recent brain-scan study sheds light on how people's brains divide continuous experiences into meaningful segments, like scenes in a movie.
Why do we forget things we were just thinking about?
When the brain "juggles" information, things can fall through the cracks.
The brain stores at least 3 copies of every memory
A new study in mice suggests that the brain creates multiple copies of memories, which enables it to regulate how they change over time.
How accurate are our first childhood memories?
Can we trust our earliest memories, or are they unreliable?
'Muscle memories' get 'zipped and unzipped' in the brain, like computer files
A new study revealed what happens in the brain when people plan and execute learned movement patterns.
Secret inner workings of cells revealed through self-assembling 'memory' chains
Researchers genetically altered mouse brain cells to produce physical timelines of their key events in the form of a self-assembling chain of fluorescent proteins.
How does the brain store memories?
The brain stores memories by creating new circuits of communication between neurons. In particular, seahorse-shaped structures called hippocampi play an important role.
