Nodding off in class may not be such a bad idea after all. New research from the University of Notre Dame shows that going to sleep shortly after learning new material is most beneficial for recall.
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Next Generation Memories Will Be Improved
The mathematical foundations of electronics predict the existence of four fundamental electronic devices. The resistor, capacitor and inductor are well known. The fourth device, the memristor, was only discovered in 2008 and even now remains an exotic piece of kit.
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Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have found a cascade of signaling molecules in the brain that allows a usually very brief signal to last for tens of minutes. This provides the brain framework for stronger connections (synapses) that can summon a memory for a period of months or even years, says Ryohei Yasuda, Ph.D., assistant professor of neurobiology.
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Researchers at the University of Michigan Medical School recently showed how the plasticity of the brain allowed mice to restore critical functions related to learning and memory after the scientists suppressed the animals’ ability to make certain new brain cells, says Geoffrey Murphy, Ph.D.
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Researchers from Rice University and Georgia Institute of Technology have found support for the theory that the brain has three concentric layers of working memory where it stores readily available items. Memory researchers have long debated whether there are two or three layers and what the capacity and function of each layer is.
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A single of atom of rubidium sits at the heart of an exotic new quantum memory device
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For the first time, working in rats, researchers have enhanced weak, old memories by tweaking an enzyme in the brain. The findings not only deepen understanding of how memory works, but offer new hope for the development of treatments for Alzheimer’s and other memory-destroying diseases.
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Just as gardeners prune unwanted growths from flowers, the brain has its own molecular secateurs for trimming back unwanted connections. Now we know what’s doing the pruning.
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IBM’s ultra-dense racetrack memory is closer to commercialization.
University of Utah physicist Christoph Boehme created a new kind of computer memory and demonstrated that it can even be stored in a new way. The results were published in the journal Science.
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