The average human brain weighs about 3 pounds and contains 80 to 100 billion neurons, which are the cells that store information. But how do these cells store information? How do we retrieve that ...
Listen to the first notes of an old, beloved song. Can you name that tune? If you can, congratulations—it's a triumph of your associative memory, in which one piece of information (the first few notes ...
Modern artificial intelligence systems operate with a fundamental paradox: they demonstrate remarkable reasoning capabilities while simultaneously suffering from systematic amnesia. Large language ...
A study published in Nature by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine changes the way we understand memory. Until now, memories have been explained by the activity of brain cells called neurons ...
(Nanowerk Spotlight) Human vision provides a model for advanced artificial intelligence systems that can perceive and understand visual information. However, conventional electronics rely on combining ...
The medial septum is far more than a mere metronome responsible for setting the pace of the hippocampal theta rhythm. It resembles more of a maestro, conducting a symphony of oscillations spanning a ...