How you file away your memories

• Autores: Jessica Hamzelou
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3141, 2017, pág. 9
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Now, Anna Schapiro of Harvard Medical School and her team have seen memories replaying in people. They asked 24 volunteers to learn about 15 made-up satellites. After 45 minutes of memorizing their names and what they looked like, participants did a memory test. The team then used an fMRI scanner to detect the brain activity elicited by images of the satellites. After a break, the volunteers were shown the pictures in the scanner again, to confirm this activity. They then rested while still being scanned, before doing a second memory test. Analyzing the scans, the team found that specific patterns of brain activity associated with the satellites were replayed during rest.