News tagged with sensory memory
Highlight: The brain seconds that emotion
Smells from your childhood kitchen, the sight of friends and family in old photographs, the feel of a well-worn flannel shirt…all these sensory experiences can conjure up powerful memories.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 06, 2010 |
4.8 / 5 (6) |
0
Scientists decipher the formation of lasting memories
Researchers Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have discovered a mechanism that controls the brain's ability to create lasting memories. In experiments on genetically manipulated mice, they ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 10, 2009 |
4.7 / 5 (3) |
0
Researchers identify one of the necessary processes in the formation of long-term memory
A new study that was carried out at the University of Haifa has identified another component in the chain of actions that take place in the neurons in the process of forming memories. This discovery joins a line of findings ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 08, 2009 |
4 / 5 (1) |
0
Search results for sensory memory
Simplicity and quantum complexity
Simulations of reality would require less memory on a quantum computer than on a classical computer, new research from scientists at the University of Bristol, published in Nature Communications, has shown.
May 04, 2012 |
4.5 / 5 (8) |
11
|
The ultimate babysitter? iPads for infants stir debate
Twenty-two-month-old George sits on a tiny blue chair, at a baby-sized desk, playing with a grown-up toy -- an iPad, sign of a powerful trend that has set alarm bells ringing among child development experts.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 26, 2012 |
not rated yet |
6
Flight of the bumblebee decoded by mathematicians
(PhysOrg.com) -- Bumblebees use complex flying patterns to avoid predators according to new research from Queen Mary, University of London.
Mar 02, 2012 |
3.3 / 5 (4) |
0
|
Attack or retreat? Circuit links hunger and pursuit in sea slug brain
If you were a blind, cannibalistic sea slug, living among others just like you, nearly every encounter with another creature would require a simple cost/benefit calculation: Should I eat that, do nothing or ...
Jan 25, 2012 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
|
Shrew whiskers inspire ground-breaking robot design
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Etruscan shrew, one of the world’s tiniest mammals, measuring around 4 centimetres long, is the inspiration for a ground-breaking new robot developed to use sophisticated whiskers ...
Jan 23, 2012 |
4.7 / 5 (6) |
11
|
Research raises new questions about animal empathy
The emotions of rats and mice and the mental infrastructure behind them promise to illuminate the nature of human emotions, including empathy and nurturance, a Washington State University neuroscientist writes in this Friday's ...
Dec 08, 2011 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
The future cometh: Science, technology and humanity at Singularity Summit 2011 (Part II)
(PhysOrg.com) -- In its essence, technology can be seen as our perpetually evolving attempt to extend our sensorimotor cortex into physical reality: From the earliest spears and boomerangs augmenting our arms, horses and ...
Dec 02, 2011 |
3.4 / 5 (23) |
42
|
The best way to market fine wine: Teach and learn or wine and dine?
According to new research, wine promoters may want to spend more money on brochures and flyers and less money on wine tastings as they market to novice wine drinkers. A recent study published in Cornell Hospitality Quarterly (a SAG ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Nov 22, 2011 |
4 / 5 (1) |
0
Interview: Dr. Ben Goertzel on Artificial General Intelligence, Transhumanism and Open Source (Part 1/2)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dr. Ben Goertzel is Chairman of Humanity+; CEO of AI software company Novamente LLC and bioinformatics company Biomind LLC; leader of the open-source OpenCog Artificial General Intelligence ...
Jun 10, 2011 |
4.6 / 5 (26) |
142
|
Scientists report changes in vegetation determine how animals migrate
The predictability and scale of seasonal changes in a habitat help determine the distance migratory species move and whether the animals always travel together to the same place or independently to different locations, according ...
May 11, 2011 |
not rated yet |
0
List of search results for sensory memory
