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FEAR MEMORIES. “Memories of fear could be permanently erased, study shows.” https://lnkd.in/d8E-U_W View in LinkedIn
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MEMORY ABLATION. “Memory erasure has been shown to be possible in some experimental conditions; some of the techniques currently being investigated are: drug-induced amnesia, selective memory suppression, destruction of neurons, interruption of memory, reconsolidation, and the disruption of specific molecular mechanisms." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_erasure View in LinkedIn
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MALLEABLE MEMORIES. “Once the realm of science fiction, advances in technology, neurochemistry, and cognitive science are redefining what memory is, enabling us to erase old memories and implant new ones.” https://lnkd.in/dsfzvCm View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2019-12-03 06:53:39
DECODING MEMORY. “I think that memory is one of the essential faculties of mind which we will eventually understand almost completely. I wouldn’t say that about other faculties of mind such as consciousness. For memory, I think we've got a pretty good handle on what happens.” https://lnkd.in/dm6ThY5 View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2019-12-03 06:53:07
“PROFESSOR TIM BLISS (winner of the Brain Prize) predicts that we will soon be able to manipulate memories, suggesting that we understand memory sufficiently today.” https://lnkd.in/dnaUMmN View in LinkedIn
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PREDICTING MEMORY FAILURE. “Researchers developed an algorithm that predicted with high accuracy whether a person would remember a given word. By stimulating the brain only when a person read words that were likely to be forgotten, the researchers could boost performance by up to 140%. Penn psychologist Michael Kahana says that the team has recorded from the brains of about 80 people in total and is seeking regulatory approval to use a more precise electrode array.” https://lnkd.in/d6RG5sQ View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2019-12-02 05:47:57
HEURISTIC APPROACH. “The data is convincing, but I’m still at a loss for understanding.” http://www.nature.com/news/memory-boosting-devices-tested-in-humans-1.18712 View in LinkedIn
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MONKEY TESTS. “Facilitation of memory encoding in primate hippocampus by a neuroprosthesis that promotes task-specific neural firing.” https://lnkd.in/d9AVWD6 View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2019-12-02 05:45:27
ALGORITHM VALIDATION. “By using this algorithm, the researchers should be able to stimulate the CA1 cells with a pattern that mimics an appropriate CA3 signal even if a person’s CA3 cells are damaged, Berger says. In previous studies on monkeys trained to do the picture-recall task, receiving a juice reward when correct, his group has shown that stimulating CA1 with an appropriate pattern significantly improved the animals’ performance.” http://www.nature.com/news/memory-boosting-devices-tested-in-humans-1.18712 View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2019-12-02 05:42:27
SIGNAL ALGORITHM. “Researchers asked 12 people with epilepsy to look at pictures and then recall up to 90 seconds later which ones they had seen. While the participants did this, the researchers recorded the firing patterns in both CA3 and CA1. They then developed an algorithm that could use the activity of the CA1 cells to predict the pattern that was coming from CA3. Compared with the actual patterns, their predictions were accurate about 80% of the time.” http://www.nature.com/news/memory-boosting-devices-tested-in-humans-1.18712 View in LinkedIn