For memories to be properly remembered, the brain needs to: 1) retrieve specific contexts without confusing them with similar ones, and 2) use those contexts as stable scaffolds for new experiences.
𝗔 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 ‘𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲’ 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 ‘𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁’!
super cool work from @jay_neuro on how music shapes our memories of the movies we watch: folks watched a jim carrey movie & the musical themes reactivated memories from the movie! ||| sounds like i should hire a composer to score my life so i can improve my memory 🎹🎵🎶
What if we could tell you how well you’ll remember your next visit to your local coffee shop? ☕️
In our new Nature Human Behaviour paper, we show that the 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 can be measured with neuroimaging – and 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸.
