{"id":168242,"date":"2023-07-24T14:26:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T19:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/new-theory-better-explains-how-the-brain-stores-memories"},"modified":"2023-07-24T14:26:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T19:26:23","slug":"new-theory-better-explains-how-the-brain-stores-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/new-theory-better-explains-how-the-brain-stores-memories","title":{"rendered":"New theory better explains how the brain stores memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-theory-better-explains-how-the-brain-stores-memories3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How useful a memory is for future situations determines where it resides in the brain, according to a new theory proposed by researchers at HHMI\u2019s Janelia Research Campus and collaborators at UCL.<\/p>\n<p>The theory, published in <i>Nature Neuroscience<\/i>, offers a new way of understanding systems consolidation, a process that transfers certain memories from the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/hippocampus\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hippocampus <\/a>\u2014where they are initially stored\u2014to the neocortex\u2014where they reside long-term.<\/p>\n<p>Under the classical view of systems consolidation, all memories move from the hippocampus to the neocortex over time. But this view doesn\u2019t always hold up; research shows some memories permanently reside in the hippocampus and are never transferred to the neocortex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How useful a memory is for future situations determines where it resides in the brain, according to a new theory proposed by researchers at HHMI\u2019s Janelia Research Campus and collaborators at UCL. The theory, published in Nature Neuroscience, offers a new way of understanding systems consolidation, a process that transfers certain memories from the hippocampus [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168242","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=168242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}