A new model suggests that astrocytes might be used in computation, coordinating with neurons and connecting synapses in ...

Though scientist Richard Semon introduced the concept of the "engram" 115 years ago to posit a neural basis for memory, direct evidence for engrams has only begun to accumulate recently as ...

Source: Genny Anderson/Wikipedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 According to the reigning neuroscientific view, short-term memory is linked to functional changes in existing synapses, while long-term ...

Researchers created a computer model that simulates the interaction between the thalamus — which assists with short-term memory — and the basal ganglia in the human brain, revealing the strategies ...

Recent Discoveries Interestingly, it is recent work in this exact domain that has put into doubt the idea of synaptic conductance as the basic memory mechanism. Studies by David Glanzman at the ...

Though scientist Richard Semon introduced the concept of the “engram” 115 years ago to posit a neural basis for memory, direct evidence for engrams has only begun to accumulate recently as ...