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How Social Pressure Can Affect What We Remember: Scientists Track Brain Activity as False Memories Are Formed
June 30, 2011 — How easy is it to falsify memory? New research shows that a bit of social pressure may be all that is needed. The study reveals a unique pattern of brain activity when false memories are formed -- ... > full story -
Learning Faces of Different Races: Clues to Why 'They' All Look Alike
June 30, 2011 — New research provides biological evidence that the brain works differently when memorizing the face of a person from one's own race than when memorizing an other-race face. By measuring brain ... > full story -
Drink-Fueled Memory Blackouts Among Students Predict Future Injury Risk
June 29, 2011 — The higher the number of drink-fueled memory blackouts a student experiences, the greater is his/her risk of sustaining a future injury while under the influence, reveals new ... > full story -
Subatomic Quantum Memory in Diamond Demonstrated
June 27, 2011 — Physicists have developed a breakthrough in the use of diamond in quantum physics, marking an important step toward quantum ... > full story -
SIV-Resistant Monkeys Close the Gates to Viral Infection
June 27, 2011 — Sooty mangabeys, a type of African monkey, can survive infection by SIV, a relative of HIV, and not succumb to AIDS. Researchers have now identified a way some of sooty mangabeys' immune cells resist ... > full story -
'Atom-Scale’ Switches for Revolutionary Low-Power Computer Processor Developed
June 27, 2011 — Revolutionary low-power logic systems that will perform instant on/off logic operations are being developed by research ... > full story -
Genes Influence Memory and Sense of Orientation
June 24, 2011 — How do our brains process memory and sense of orientation? Scientists are gaining insight by studying rats with implanted genes that prompt neurons to fire on ... > full story -
Sleep Switch Found in Fruit Flies
June 23, 2011 — Rather than count sheep, drink warm milk or listen to soothing music, many insomniacs probably wish for a switch they could flick to put themselves to sleep. Scientists have discovered such a switch ... > full story -
In Search of the Memory Molecule, Researchers Discover Key Protein Complex
June 23, 2011 — Have a tough time remembering where you put your keys, learning a new language or recalling names at a cocktail party? New research points to a molecule that is central to the process by which ... > full story -
Competition Between Brain Cells Spurs Memory Circuit Development
June 23, 2011 — Scientists have for the first time demonstrated how memory circuits in the brain refine themselves in a living organism through two distinct types of competition between cells. Their results mark a ... > full story
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