by University of Birmingham Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Laser light therapy has been shown to be effective in improving short term memory in a study published in Science Advances. Scientists at the University of Birmingham in the U.K. and Beijing Normal University in China, demonstrated that the therapy, which is non-invasive, could improve short term, or...
by University of California, Irvine UCI sleep researcher and cognitive scientist Sara Mednick led a team that found that long-term and working memory processing during sleep compete with one another. To optimize both, she recommends getting to bed early to maximize the amount of time spent in slow-wave sleep, the period in which memory is...
by Bob Yirka , Medical Xpress Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers at Howard Hughes Medical Institute has learned more about the brain processes involved in short-term memory retention when distractions occur. In their paper published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, the group describes memory experiments they conducted with lab mice and what they learned from...
by Ingrid Fadelli , Medical Xpress Figure 1 All-optical method. A laser beam was precisely positioned (magenta lines) onto neurons of interest, causing those neurons to be activated (yellow shading). By observing changes in the surrounding circuit, the researchers could infer the presence of effective connections. Credit: Daie, Svoboda & Druckmann. Humans have the innate ability to...
