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Icing Worms to Prolong Memory

Researchers discovered that chilling worms on ice slows down forgetting, prompting an exploration into the pathway responsible for this cool phenomenon.

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An Immune Mechanism Maintains Memory

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Novelty Activates a Long Noncoding RNA for Spatial Learning in Mice

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(Left) The optic lobes are thought to be involved in visual processing. In this study, researchers found that guppies with larger optic lobes more quickly learned a visual discrimination task—identifying which color well contained food. (Right) The fish telencephalon is thought to be involved in spatial learning, memory, and inhibitory control. Here, the researchers found that a larger telencephalon might enhance the fish’s cognitive flexibility, allowing them to more quickly associate food with a new color after the researchers switched it.

Infographic: Two Guppy Brain Regions May Help Them Learn Tasks

Natalia Mesa, PhD | | 1 min read

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Fish Brain Region Size Correlates with Cognitive Flexibility

Natalia Mesa, PhD | | 3 min read

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Famed Neuroscientist Charles Stevens Dies at 88

Lisa Winter | | 3 min read

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Electrically Zapping Specific Brain Regions Can Boost Memory

Dan Robitzski | | 3 min read

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Bacterial Metabolite May Regulate Cognition in Mice

Sophie Fessl, PhD | | 3 min read

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Distracted Brains Better at Parsing Unfamiliar Languages: Study

Catherine Offord | | 2 min read

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Bacteria-Infecting Viruses in Gut Microbiome Linked to Cognition

Dan Robitzski | | 5 min read

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Neuroscientist Mortimer Mishkin Dies at 94

Lisa Winter | | 2 min read

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Talking Duck Stuns Animal Behavior Researcher

Christie Wilcox, PhD | | 7 min read

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Fecal Transplant Restores Youth to Old Mice

Roni Dengler, PhD | | 3 min read

Can Single Cells Learn?

Catherine Offord | | 10+ min read

Infographic: Investigating Whether Single Cells Learn

Catherine Offord | | 2 min read

Dietary Spermidine Boosts Cognition in Insects and Rodents

Ruth Williams | | 3 min read

Early Training Forestalls Motor, Memory Difficulties in Mouse Model of Rett Syndrome

Laura DattaroandSpectrum | | 3 min read

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Researchers Exchange Messages with Dreamers

Asher Jones | | 5 min read

Scientists Engineer Dreams to Understand the Sleeping Brain

Catherine Offord | | 10+ min read

animal learning, zebra finch, model organism, communication, fast mapping, individual recognition, cognition, evolution

Zebra Finches Recognize the Calls of Over 40 Fellow Finches

Amanda Heidt | | 5 min read

T Cells and Neurons Talk to Each Other

Ashley Yeager | | 10+ min read

Infographic: How Cytokines Flow into and out of the Brain

Ashley Yeager | | 3 min read

Stanford University, psychology, memory, learning, Gordon Bower, human psychology

Human Memory Explorer Gordon Bower Dies

Amanda Heidt | | 3 min read

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