{"id":215275,"date":"2025-06-03T02:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T07:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/when-less-is-more-how-inhibition-shapes-learning-and-spatial-memory-formation"},"modified":"2025-06-03T02:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T07:18:07","slug":"when-less-is-more-how-inhibition-shapes-learning-and-spatial-memory-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/when-less-is-more-how-inhibition-shapes-learning-and-spatial-memory-formation","title":{"rendered":"When less is more: How inhibition shapes learning and spatial memory formation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/when-less-is-more-how-inhibition-shapes-learning-and-spatial-memory-formation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nuri Jeong remembers the feeling of surprise she felt during a trip back to South Korea, while visiting her grandmother, who\u2019d been grappling with Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hadn\u2019t seen her in six years, but she recognized me,\u201d said Jeong, a former graduate researcher in the lab of Annabelle Singer in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t expect that. Even though my grandmother struggled to remember other family members that she saw all the time, she somehow remembered me,\u201d Jeong added. \u201cIt made me wonder how the brain distinguishes between familiar and new experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuri Jeong remembers the feeling of surprise she felt during a trip back to South Korea, while visiting her grandmother, who\u2019d been grappling with Alzheimer\u2019s disease. \u201cI hadn\u2019t seen her in six years, but she recognized me,\u201d said Jeong, a former graduate researcher in the lab of Annabelle Singer in the Wallace H. Coulter Department [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215275","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=215275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}