{"id":194608,"date":"2024-08-15T19:23:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T00:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/the-brain-creates-parallel-copies-for-a-single-memory-new-study-reveals"},"modified":"2024-08-15T19:23:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T00:23:39","slug":"the-brain-creates-parallel-copies-for-a-single-memory-new-study-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/the-brain-creates-parallel-copies-for-a-single-memory-new-study-reveals","title":{"rendered":"The brain creates parallel copies for a single memory, new study reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-brain-creates-parallel-copies-for-a-single-memory-new-study-reveals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adk0997\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Science<\/i> reveals that the memory for a specific experience is stored in multiple parallel \u201ccopies.\u201d These are preserved for varying durations, modified to certain degrees, and sometimes deleted over time, report researchers at the University of Basel.<\/p>\n<p>The ability to turn experiences into memories allows us to learn from the past and use what we learned as a model to respond appropriately to new situations. For this reason, as the world around us changes, this memory model cannot simply be a fixed archive of the good old days.<\/p>\n<p>Rather, it must be dynamic, changing over <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/time\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">time<\/a> and adapting to new circumstances to better help us predict the future and select the best course of action. How the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain<\/a> could regulate a memory\u2019s dynamics was a mystery\u2014until multiple memory copies were discovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study now published in Science reveals that the memory for a specific experience is stored in multiple parallel \u201ccopies.\u201d These are preserved for varying durations, modified to certain degrees, and sometimes deleted over time, report researchers at the University of Basel. The ability to turn experiences into memories allows us to learn from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194608","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}