{"id":173647,"date":"2023-10-06T17:37:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T22:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/new-theory-challenges-classical-view-on-brains-memory-storage"},"modified":"2023-10-06T17:37:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T22:37:47","slug":"new-theory-challenges-classical-view-on-brains-memory-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/new-theory-challenges-classical-view-on-brains-memory-storage","title":{"rendered":"New Theory Challenges Classical View on Brain\u2019s Memory Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-theory-challenges-classical-view-on-brains-memory-storage.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a new theory presented by researchers at <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/howard-hughes-medical-institute\/\">HHMI\u2019s Janelia Research Campus<\/a> and their colleagues at <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-college-london\/\">University College London<\/a>, how useful a memory is for future situations determines where it resides in the brain.<\/p>\n<p>The theory offers a new way of understanding systems consolidation, a process that transfers certain memories from the hippocampus \u2013 where they are initially stored \u2013 to the neocortex \u2014 where 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>According to a new theory presented by researchers at HHMI\u2019s Janelia Research Campus and their colleagues at University College London, how useful a memory is for future situations determines where it resides in the brain. The theory offers a new way of understanding systems consolidation, a process that transfers certain memories from the hippocampus \u2013 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173647","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}