NEUROSCIENCE: Making Memories

Making Memories Matter

This article reviews some of the neuroendocrine bases by which emotional events regulate brain mechanisms of learning and memory. In laboratory rodents, there is extensive evidence that epinephrine influences memory processing through an inverted-U relationship, at which moderate levels enhance and high levels impair memory. These effects are, in large part, mediated by increases in blood gluco...

Making Cellular Memories

The induction of a protracted response to a brief stimulus is a form of cellular memory. Here we describe the role of transcriptional regulation in both natural and synthetic memory networks and discuss the potential applications of engineered memory networks in medicine and industrial biotechnology.

Neuroscience: Transforming Visual Percepts into Memories

A new study shows that local field potential oscillations in the human entorhinal cortex and hippocampus are correlated with visual awareness.

Illusory memories: a cognitive neuroscience analysis.

Memory illusions and distortions have long been of interest to psychology researchers studying memory, but neuropsychologists and neuroscientists have paid relatively little attention to them. This article attempts to lay the foundation for a cognitive neuroscience analysis of memory illusions and distortions by reviewing relevant evidence from a patient with a right frontal lobe lesion, patien...

Making Memories That Last X