What can Google tell us about 'the memory web' in the brain?
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - 15:07
in Psychology & Sociology
Associations are a key memory mechanism - to remember personal experiences like meeting a person in a place, we create associations between the concepts involved. A research team used internet search engines such as Google and Bing for establishing degree of association between concepts and how these associations are encoded by neurons in memory areas. The study reveals the neural mechanism underlying 'the memory web', as neurons showed a long term coding of meaningful associations