{"id":246057,"date":"2026-10-28T15:07:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T20:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/amygdala-activity-predicts-which-new-images-may-become-lasting-memories"},"modified":"2026-10-28T15:07:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T20:07:58","slug":"amygdala-activity-predicts-which-new-images-may-become-lasting-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/amygdala-activity-predicts-which-new-images-may-become-lasting-memories","title":{"rendered":"Amygdala activity predicts which new images may become lasting memories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A walnut-sized area of the brain known as the amygdala plays a giant role in determining which experiences end up in long-term memory and which are forgotten. The Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University discovery points to the amygdala as a potential target for treating memory disorders.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2024-11-overthinking-lizard-brain-advanced.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">amygdala<\/a>, located deep below the brain\u2019s surface in the temporal lobe, is classically associated with emotional and social behavior. In memory, its role was thought to be limited to learning and recalling experiences that evoked fear or other strong feelings.<\/p>\n<p>But the <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41593-026-02493-9\" target=\"_blank\">new study<\/a>, published in the journal <i>Nature Neuroscience<\/i>, uncovered a much broader role for the amygdala in forming long-lasting memories in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A walnut-sized area of the brain known as the amygdala plays a giant role in determining which experiences end up in long-term memory and which are forgotten. The Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University discovery points to the amygdala as a potential target for treating memory disorders. The amygdala, located deep below the brain\u2019s surface in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246057","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=246057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}