{"id":153990,"date":"2022-12-31T08:22:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T14:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/new-research-reveals-how-the-brain-holds-information-in-mind"},"modified":"2022-12-31T08:22:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T14:22:40","slug":"new-research-reveals-how-the-brain-holds-information-in-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/new-research-reveals-how-the-brain-holds-information-in-mind","title":{"rendered":"New research reveals how the brain holds information in mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-research-reveals-how-the-brain-holds-information-in-mind.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MIT neuroscientists have published a key new insight on how working memory functions, in a study published in PLOS Computational Biology.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory compared measurements of brain cell activity in an animal performing a working memory task with the output of various computer models representing two theories on the underlying mechanism for holding information in mind.<\/p>\n<p>The results favored the newer theory that a network of neurons stores information by making short-lived changes in the connections, or synapses, between them, rather than the traditional theory that memory is maintained by neurons remaining persistently active.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT neuroscientists have published a key new insight on how working memory functions, in a study published in PLOS Computational Biology. The researchers at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory compared measurements of brain cell activity in an animal performing a working memory task with the output of various computer models representing two theories [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153990","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\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}