{"id":137882,"date":"2022-04-09T02:02:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T07:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/scientists-unveil-how-our-memories-are-stored-the-format-of-working-memory"},"modified":"2022-04-09T02:02:35","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T07:02:35","slug":"scientists-unveil-how-our-memories-are-stored-the-format-of-working-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/scientists-unveil-how-our-memories-are-stored-the-format-of-working-memory","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Unveil How Our Memories Are Stored: The Format of Working Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-unveil-how-our-memories-are-stored-the-format-of-working-memory.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists has discovered how working memory is \u201cformatted\u201d\u2014a finding that enhances our understanding of how visual memories are stored.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor decades researchers have wondered about the nature of the neural representations that support our working memory,\u201d explains Clayton Curtis, professor of psychology and neural science at New York University and the senior author of the paper, which appears in the journal <em>Neuron<\/em>. \u201cIn this study, we used both experimental and analytical techniques to reveal the format of working memory representations in the brain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ability to store information for brief periods of time, or \u201cworking memory,\u201d is a building block for most of our higher cognitive processes, and its dysfunction is at the heart of a variety of psychiatric and neurologic symptoms, including schizophrenia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientists has discovered how working memory is \u201cformatted\u201d\u2014a finding that enhances our understanding of how visual memories are stored. \u201cFor decades researchers have wondered about the nature of the neural representations that support our working memory,\u201d explains Clayton Curtis, professor of psychology and neural science at New York University and the senior [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}