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🌟 Astrocytes are superstars in the game of long-term memory
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Astrocytes are superstars in the game of long-term memory
Why are we able to recall only some of our past experiences? A new study led by Jun Nagai at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan has an answer. Surprisingly, it turns out that the brain cells responsible for stabilizing memories aren't neurons. Rather, they are astrocytes, a type of glial cell that is usually thought of as a role player in the game of learning and memory.

📔 Exploring how storytelling strategies shape memories
#memory

Exploring how storytelling strategies shape memories
Does the way a person hears about an event shape their recollection of it later? In a new JNeurosci paper, Signy Sheldon and colleagues, from McGill University, explored whether different storytelling strategies affect how the brain stores that experience as a memory and recalls it later.

Here's my latest Human Meme podcast about memory and remembering:
#memory

Five big topics were covered at this year's @…:
- #memory (monitoring)
- #scheduling
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You see a detective on the TV and he’s interviewing all the suspects asking them what they were doing on the night of the murder a month ago last Tuesday night.
And on the TV, the suspects all know. Right away.
If you asked me ten years ago though, I’d have had barely any clue. If you’re lucky it’d have been something planned in my calendar but mostly, dunno. Watching TV maybe? No idea what show. Was that a night I was in the pub?
As we all get older this problem increases I’m told. Eventually full on senility sets in.
But what if you have already built the habit to record what you’re doing? To be able to look back and revise and review how you spent your days? An external aid as a crutch to your own forgetful brain’s cortex?
So I started this Exocortex Log over a decade ago and now I can answer: Ten years ago on Tuesday I was having dinner with the guitarist from my band and his girlfriend and they burned the pudding.
The app has been half finished and barely able to even record let alone review for most of that time, but now it’s ready enough that someone else might use it too if they want.
Try it out: #lifeLog #app #memoryAid

So this is out now:
"Intro: Camp Memories in Africa and beyond"
my intro to a special issue on #MemoryStudies and the contested memorialization of #camps in #Africa and beyond

Five big topics were covered at this year's @…:
- #memory (monitoring)
- #scheduling
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👶 Body illusion helps unlock memories, new study finds
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Body illusion helps unlock memories, new study finds
New research has discovered that briefly altering how we perceive our own body can help unlock autobiographical memories—potentially even those from the early stages of childhood.

Give you #AI some intelligent #memory with #graphiti #MCP 🤖🚀📝
i made a fork with some nice feat…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #The6MixWithMaryAnneHobbs
Memory Tapes:
🎵 Let Me Be
#MemoryTapes
https://memorytapes.bandcamp.com/track/let-me-be
https://open.spotify.com/track/38euYjSCJPb1lXYFjbBLWm