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...purpose of the scans was to compare the relative levels of spontaneous neural activity in two key brain regions involved in memory - the hippocampus and visual cortex - during rest, both before and after the visual tasks. The NYU team noticed that levels of activity in the two areas were more closely correlated several minutes after people had looked at the images than before they started the experiment. That suggests that the visual-learning tasks had affected the brain's seemingly random firings during rest, and perhaps that the brain was conducting memory-consolidating activity during that time...
What's more, the more closely correlated the brain activity during the rest period, the better the person performed on the tests of recognition. "We found that higher correlations [of activity in the hippocampus and visual cortex] during rest periods leads to high future memory," notes Arielle Tambini, a graduate student in Davachi's lab and lead author of the paper...
...more about how you’re quarantined, rather than how you aren’t quarantined. If this doesn’t make total sense, then I guess you just haven’t yet suffered a fever that melts a huge piece of your cerebral cortex...
...medical community has long been interested in how the brain is affected by music. Historically, however, most research was linked to the cortex, the brain's outer layer, which is associated with functions like memory, consciousness and abstract thought...
...those studies, neurosurgical patients, wide awake with their cortex exposed, listened to certain sounds and music. While their neural activity was being recorded, they told researchers how those selections made them feel...