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...memory--or engrams, as neuroscientists call them--are first forged deep inside the brain in an area called the hippocampus (after the Latin word for seahorse because of its arching shape). Acting as a kind of neurological scratch pad, the hippocampus stores the engrams temporarily until they are transferred somehow (perhaps during sleep) to permanent storage sites throughout the cerebral cortex. This area, located behind the forehead, is often described as the center of intelligence and perception. Here, as in the hippocampus, the information is thought to reside in the form of neurological scribbles, clusters of connected cells...
That explanation fits pretty well with the old theories. More puzzling, though, is another of the study's findings: the steady migration of new neurons from the hippocampus to the cerebral cortex. Could these neurons be somehow involved in ferrying information into permanent storage--storing short-term memories for the long term...
Perhaps, Gould and her colleagues ventured in a recent paper, this purported transport mechanism provides a means of time-stamping memories, helping us keep track of when we learned what. Older memories would be somehow associated with older neurons. No one is even guessing how this might work. But if memories are indeed flowing through the brain in rivulets of new neurons, then all the old ideas will have to be reconsidered...
Ford had been in charge of the camera unit at Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, his mission to film the Operation Overlord invasion that landed 176,000 Allied soldiers on the beaches of Normandy for the massive assault against the Germans occupying France. Yet somehow Ford's footage was lost until 1998, when Melvyn R. Paisley, a World War II aviator and Reagan-era Assistant Secretary of the Navy, found a few canisters of the missing film deep within the National Archives. Spielberg, whose father had also served in the U.S. Army Air Corps and who would...
...same time, the introspective nature of House life came under sharp attack during the student unrest of the late 1960s and 1970s. House football came to seem somehow unimportant compared to, say, the Vietnam War. To some extent, the Houses helped to cool student passions, but even in those Houses like Dunster that were home to many of the leading radicals on campus, a tension existed between the tenor of House life and the struggles taking place outside the confines of the undergraduate world. "People might go out and parade and counter-parade and then come back and talk...