University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineers have become the first to develop a model that literally looks beyond the surface
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There has long been convincing evidence that recalling a memory can cause changes in that memory, potentially weakening it, strengthening it, or otherwise altering it. A new study, published in Nature Neuroscience by researchers from the University of Birmingham, the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, and the Behavioral and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, presents a convincing argument that the weakening of old memories may be an adaptive function, one that helps the brain integrate new memories with existing ones.
The researchers were able to watch subjects’ brain activity as memories were recalled using a functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) machine. An fMRI machine allows scientists to see changes in brain activity by producing images that show where oxygen-rich blood is flowing within the brain.
Subjects were shown 144 pairs of pictures/words while in the fMRI machine, and their brain activity was observed. Then, the subjects entered a learning phase, in which they were trained on 72 picture-word pairs, a subset of the initial 144. They were asked to construct a highly detailed association between the pictures and the words, using intricate mental imagery. They were then asked to learn a second set of associations for each word; these served as competition for the first set.
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Researchers develop the first-ever quantum device that detects and corrects its own errors When scientists develop a full
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Last week the Full Moon was completely immersed in Earth's dark umbral shadow, just briefly though. The total phase of the April 4, 2015 lunar eclipse lasted less than 5 minutes, the shortest total lunar eclipse of the century. In fact, sliding just within the Earth's umbral shadow's northern edge, the lunar north stayed relatively bright, while a beautiful range of blue and red hues emerged across the rest of the Moon's Earth-facing hemisphere. The reddened light within the shadow that reaches the lunar surface is filtered through the lower atmosphere. Seen from a lunar perspective it comes from all the sunsets and sunrises around the edges of the silhouetted Earth. Close to the shadow's edge, the bluer light is still filtered through Earth's atmosphere, but originates as rays of sunlight pass through layers high in the upper stratosphere. That light is colored by ozone that absorbs red light and transmits bluer hues. In this sharp telescopic view of totality from Auckland, New Zealand, planet Earth, the Moon's north pole has been rotated to the top of the frame. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP)
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Researchers from our University have been awarded a £1m Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) grant to
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