The terms consolidation and reconsolidation refer to transient neurobiological processes that are thought to implement changes in synaptic efficacy in neurons that participate in forming a memory ...

Memory is a continually unfolding process. Initial details of an experience take shape in memory; the brain’s representation of that information then changes over time. With subsequent ...

This process accounts for instances where we can retrieve just the contextual elements of a memory, while forgetting the specific details, a process that is not well-accounted for in the existing ...

This finding suggests that memory mechanisms may stem from fundamental cellular processes. The research was conducted by ...

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"Our work not only expands our understanding of how memories are formed but also suggests exciting new possibilities for manipulating higher order memory processes," she said. "This could have ...

Their findings, published in Nature Neuroscience, suggest that the hippocampus helps to shape future behavior via two connected processes, known as memory composition and hippocampal replay.

As we get older, the essential cleaning processes that our brains need to keep functioning start to break down and fail.

Past neuroscience studies suggest that memories of events that occurred at short time intervals from one another are often connected, via a process referred to as memory linking. While memory ...