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Do brain ripples boost emotional memory encoding?

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers investigated whether post-encoding ripples improve emotional memory through amygdala-hippocampal memory restoration or ...
Medical Xpress

Why some moments endure: Episodic memory encoding fluctuates with brain's theta rhythms

For almost a century, psychologists and neuroscientists have been trying to understand how humans memorize different types of information, ranging from knowledge or facts to the recollection of ...
Nature

Using machine learning to simultaneously quantify multiple cognitive components of episodic memory

Why do we remember some events but forget others? Previous studies attempting to decode successful vs. unsuccessful brain states to investigate this question have met with limited success, potentially ...
Semiconductor Engineering

New Approach to Encoding Optical Weights for In-Memory Photonic Computing Using Magneto-Optic Memory Cells

A new technical paper titled “Integrated non-reciprocal magneto-optics with ultra-high endurance for photonic in-memory computing” was published by researchers at UC Santa Barbara, University of ...
Nature

Memory, perceptual, and motor costs affect the strength of categorical encoding during motor learning of object properties

Nearly all tasks of daily life involve skilled object manipulation, and successful manipulation requires knowledge of object dynamics. We recently developed a motor learning paradigm that reveals the ...