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Joshua Shavit
Jun 30, 2022
Harvard researchers discover how the brain controls symptoms of sickness
What most people don’t know is that it’s actually the brain behind why you feel sick. It’s a result of the immune system kicking into gear.
Joseph Shavit
May 25, 2022
Scientists identify how the brain links memories
Our brains rarely record single memories—instead, they store memories into groups so that the recollection of one memory triggers others.
Joseph Shavit
Mar 10, 2022
How does the brain make memories?
In a Cedars-Sinai study, researchers have discovered two types of brain cells that play a key role in dividing continuous human experience.
Joseph Shavit
Mar 8, 2022
How does the human brain create memories?
Researchers have identified two types of cells in our brains that are involved in organizing discrete memories based on when they occurred.
Joshua Shavit
Sep 27, 2021
New research “sniffs out” how memories are formed
The ability to remember relationships between unrelated items (an odor and a location, a song and an event) is known as associative memory
Joseph Shavit
Sep 18, 2021
Do certain sounds make you smile? Study lists the Top 40 memory-triggering sounds for adults
A study found that a waterfall, bird songs and waves crashing on a beach are among the sounds that can bring back happiest memories.
Joseph Shavit
Aug 19, 2021
How people manipulate their own memories
People remember past experiences through the so-called episodic memory system and can manipulate their memories on three levels.
Joseph Shavit
Jun 14, 2021
Study finds that our earliest memories can start from the age of two-and-a-half
New study and a review of decades of data pushes the memory clock back over a year, but the study confirms everyone is different
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