Word: braine
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which employs large magnets to make images of the brain, researchers could track the flow of blood to different parts of the brain during memory formation and recall...
...what way certain parts of brain tissue are important for different types of memory,” said Jason Mitchell, a graduate student in psychology at Harvard Medical School who worked on the study. “It is the interface of psychology and the brain...
Mitchell, who is also a resident tutor in Cabot House, worked with Lila Davachi, a post-doctoral fellow in brain and cognitive science...
...researchers found that two different regions of the brain are responsible for what they call “item memory” (the recognition of a face, for instance) and “recollective memory” (the association of the image with events...
...appears that the hippocampus, the area of the brain responsible for long-term memory, binds together pieces of experience into a unified memory trace,” said Anthony Wagner, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at MIT who was the principle investigator of the study. “Later, when you get one bit of information, your brain retrieves all the details...