{"id":147501,"date":"2022-10-04T05:23:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T10:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/research-team-shines-light-on-how-the-brain-stores-positive-and-negative-memories"},"modified":"2022-10-04T05:23:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T10:23:01","slug":"research-team-shines-light-on-how-the-brain-stores-positive-and-negative-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/research-team-shines-light-on-how-the-brain-stores-positive-and-negative-memories","title":{"rendered":"Research team shines light on how the brain stores positive and negative memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/research-team-shines-light-on-how-the-brain-stores-positive-and-negative-memories2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may not realize it, but each time you recall a memory\u2014like your first time riding a bike or walking into your high school prom\u2014your brain changes the memory ever so slightly. It\u2019s almost like adding an Instagram filter, with details being filled in and information being updated or lost with each recall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re inadvertently applying filters to our <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/past+experiences\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">past experiences<\/a>,\u201d says Steve Ramirez, a Boston University neuroscientist. Even though a filtered memory is different from the original, you can tell what that basic picture is, for the most part, he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMemory is less of a video recording of the past, and more reconstructive,\u201d says Ramirez, a BU College of Arts &amp; Sciences assistant professor of psychological and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain+sciences\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain sciences<\/a>. The malleable nature of memory is both a blessing and curse: It\u2019s bad if we remember false details, but it\u2019s good that our brains have the natural ability to mold and update memories to make them less potent, especially if it is something scary or traumatic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may not realize it, but each time you recall a memory\u2014like your first time riding a bike or walking into your high school prom\u2014your brain changes the memory ever so slightly. It\u2019s almost like adding an Instagram filter, with details being filled in and information being updated or lost with each recall. \u201cWe\u2019re inadvertently [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147501","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}