Although medications can often treat the delusions and hallucinations that accompany schizophrenia, it’s been more challenging to address memory problems, which can make it difficult to perform daily activities. “People with schizophrenia have difficulty retrieving associations within a context, and this creates a pervasive loss of memory that makes everyday life a challenge. You can’t…
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Why It’s Hard to Remember Colors
Human vision can distinguish between millions of colors, but we have trouble remembering specific shades because our brains tend to store what we’ve seen as one of just a few basic hues, a Johns Hopkins University-led team has discovered. A team of researchers led by cognitive psychologist Jonathan Flombaum dispute standard assumptions about memory, demonstrating…
Decoding the Brain’s Memory and Spatial Skills Systems
A new work study reconciles two competing views of brain structures involved in memory and spatial perception. Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine conducted experiments that suggest the hippocampus, a small region in the brain’s limbic system, is dedicated largely to memory formation and not to spatial skills, such as navigation.…
How The Spatial Contexts Of Memories Are Geo-tagged In Our Brains
Brain cells which encode spatial information form “geotags” for specific memories are activated immediately before those memories are recalled, a team of neuroscientists from the University of Pennsylvania and Freiburg University has found. This work shows how spatial information is incorporated into memories, and why remembering an experience can quickly bring to mind other events…
What is Memory?
Memory is difficult to define without being circular. People often define memory as “something you can remember”. But we cannot deny the existence of a memory when there is no recollection. Sigmund Freud was first to theorise this notion: memories that are not consciously remembered can exert control through the subconscious. Although much of his…