Science news articles about 'recognition memory'

... describes a method through which a selected set of memories can be rapidly and specifically erased from the mouse brain ... long-term fear memories and novel object recognition memory," explains Dr. Tsien ...

... at the Beckman Institute, are co-investigators of the study. "An Electrophysiological Signature of Unconscious Recognition Memory" will be published online Feb. 8 by the journal Nature Neuroscience. ...

... brain fluctuates between two different types of recognition memory: recollection and familiarity. Recollection-based ... déjà vu and theories of human recognition memory exist", Cleary concludes, "Theories ...

... . "This is the first paper showing that a single dose of oxytocin specifically improves recognition memory for social, but not for nonsocial, stimuli," said Ernst Fehr, PhD, an economist at the ...

... the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. "Understanding kin recognition memory systems, or templates, is important to studying habitat selection, food choice, ...

... with no cognitive impairment. Patients with amnestic MCI and controls participated in separate recognition memory tests of words and pictures, while high density event-related potentials (ERPs) were ...