The processes by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved.
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Is it possible that the recipient of a heart transplant would display some of the donor's personality traits, as if the heart has memories?
I've read somewhere that after a person has a heart transplant, it is possible that his/her attitude, action or behavior would change slightly or significantly, as though he/she possesses some aspects ...
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Evolutionary explanation to why we have such large memory capacities?
The scientific consensus is that no one ever fills up their memory capacity by learning facts and so on, even in the information age. My question is therefore, is there an evolutionary reason as to ...
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Can rats pass on memories of a maze to their offspring?
A friend of mine told me once about a documentary movie he saw some years ago. On this movie he saw scientists talking about particular experiment. This experiment involved rats and probably ...
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How old does a baby have to be before it can retain memories?
For most people (my earliest memories are of perhaps when I was 2 or so) their earliest memories would be when they were over a year old.
How old does the average baby have to be before it can ...
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Long-term-potentiation and memory. Where do we stand?
I was reading the answers to the question: How and where, in the human brain, are memories stored? and, as expected, LTP and LTD came out.
Every time I read about LTP/LTD there is always something ...
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How and where, in the human brain, are memories stored?
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I am a computer programmer who is fascinated by artificial intelligence and artificial neural networks, and I am becoming more curious about how biological neural networks work.
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