{"id":88026,"date":"2019-02-20T17:02:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T01:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/researchers-peer-inside-the-mind-of-the-worm-for-clues-on-how-memories-form"},"modified":"2019-02-20T17:02:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T01:02:30","slug":"researchers-peer-inside-the-mind-of-the-worm-for-clues-on-how-memories-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/researchers-peer-inside-the-mind-of-the-worm-for-clues-on-how-memories-form","title":{"rendered":"Researchers peer inside the mind of the worm for clues on how memories form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-peer-inside-the-mind-of-the-worm-for-clues-on-how-memories-form.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Try as you might, some events cannot be remembered. Known in psychology as memory blocking, the phenomenon has remained elusive since first described more than half a century ago. Now Donnelly Centre researchers have found that blocking is not due to problems with forming memories, as previously thought, but with memory recall\u2014in worms at least.<\/p>\n<p>By studying this process in the <i>C. elegans<\/i> worm, a creature only one millimeter long but whose biology has been studied so extensively that the position of all of its 302 <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nerve+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nerve cells<\/a> in the body is known, the researchers think they\u2019ll be able to pinpoint the cells and molecules at play during learning and memory.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are described in a study published in the journal Scientific Reports.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-02-peer-mind-worm-clues-memories.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019&#45;02-peer-mind-worm-clues-memories.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Try as you might, some events cannot be remembered. Known in psychology as memory blocking, the phenomenon has remained elusive since first described more than half a century ago. Now Donnelly Centre researchers have found that blocking is not due to problems with forming memories, as previously thought, but with memory recall\u2014in worms at least. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88026","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}