Why we don’t remember being a baby: « Infants can encode specific memories, a new Yale study shows, suggesting “infantile amnesia” might be a memory retrieval problem. »

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People with ADHD symptoms report more involuntary memories in daily life. These spontaneous recollections were also rated as less positive and more repetitive.

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Scientists shed light on how forgiveness does and doesn’t reshape memories 🧠💔✨

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Scientists unravel how a tiny region of the brain 🧠 helps us form distinct memories 🧩, opening new avenues for PTSD, Alzheimer’s research. Data from the study suggests that stress 😟 may disrupt processes that organize events in memory.

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New research shows dopamine shapes both fast, effortful learning via working memory 🧠 and slower, habit-based trial-and-error learning. It not only reinforces rewards 🎉 but also modulates memory, motivation 💪, forgetting, and learning rates 📈—making it a key regulator of diverse learning systems.

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'Master switch' brain protein could reverse age-related memory loss 🧠🔄 | Researchers found that lowering levels of a protein (FTL1) linked to iron in the brain in older mice 🐭⚙️ could be a new way to reverse memory loss.

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Researchers have measured subjects' memory by tracking their eye movements 👀 as they watched animation videos 🎥, demonstrating that people actually remember more than they report. This method can be used to measure memory in subjects who cannot speak 🗣️.

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New study identifies a link between changes in brain shape 🧠 and declines in cognitive functions, such as memory 🧠💭 and reasoning.

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Epigenetic switch to turn memories on and off created: 🧬 Researchers used CRISPR tools to control the Arc gene in memory-storing engram cells in the brain. 🧠 Turning Arc off weakened or erased memory in mice 🐭, while turning it on enhanced recall—and both effects could be undone. 🔄

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A new study reveals that the adult human brain continues to produce new neurons throughout life, a process that is highly active in older individuals with exceptional memories but severely limited in those with Alzheimer’s disease.

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Psychologists implant false beliefs to understand how human memory fails. The findings suggest that highly plausible events are much more likely to generate false beliefs, but only when people are led to believe the event happened just once.

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💡 A new study in Applied Cognitive Psychology reveals that how believable an event is and how often it's suggested greatly influence the formation of false memories. Highly plausible events are more likely to create false beliefs, especially if suggested only once.

🤔 False beliefs occur when someone is sure an event happened, even without visualizing it. False memories go further, involving vivid sensory details of events that never took place.

🔬 Researchers found that when an event was presented as happening just once, a high-plausibility event led to a false belief in up to 52% of participants, compared to only 10% for low-plausibility events. However, this difference vanished when the event was suggested as happening repeatedly.

🧠 The findings highlight that memory is not perfect but malleable, and suggestive questioning, event plausibility, and frequency can distort recollections, with significant implications for legal settings.

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It's possible to freeze the brain and restore its function. Scientists froze a section of a mouse brain, and after thawing, the neurons continued to function. This opens up new ways to treat diseases, research on memory, and potentially the future of "brain storage."

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Dopamine Deficiency Found to Drive Memory Impairment in Alzheimer's Disease

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Negative emotions help cement the central information, details and key aspects of experiences (like name-face associations)but diminish recollection of the surrounding context and environment, according to a study conducted using immersive technology and virtual reality

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Memories of childhood trauma remain stable over time but change more often in children than adults. Research found there may be a window in childhood when traumatic memories are most open to change, and when therapeutic intervention could have the greatest long-term impact.

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Relying on reminders could be weakening your memory skills

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🧠 New research suggests that relying on digital reminders might hinder our brain's ability to learn to remember tasks independently over time.

💡 Experiments showed that while reminders improve immediate task completion, individuals who used reminders previously performed worse on memory tasks when reminders were removed, compared to those who never used them.

📉 The study, "Offloading Reduces Prospective Memory Learning" by Craig Fellers and Benjamin C. Storm, indicates a potential trade-off between immediate convenience and long-term memory skill development.

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📸 Taking screenshots may actually make you more likely to forget information, according to Binghamton University research published in the journal Memory & Cognition. The "photo-taking impairment effect" degrades memory unless the images are actively reviewed later.

🧠 The study, led by Sophia Fabrizio, suggests mechanisms like divided attention, cognitive offloading (relying on external storage instead of internal memory), and attentional disengagement (unconsciously distancing oneself from an experience) contribute to this digital amnesia.

📝 A better alternative for remembering information is writing it down by hand, a process known as "desirable difficulty," which forces more mental processing and organization of information.

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Brain imaging study found that how we retrieve a memory can alter how the brain represents it the next time, with memories retaining neural traces of previous recall, suggesting that memory is something that can change as we use it

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