In mapping feat, scientists pinpoint neurons where select memories grow
Thursday, March 27, 2014 - 14:02
in Biology & Nature
Memories are difficult to produce, often fragile, and dependent on any number of factors -- including changes to various types of nerves. In the common fruit fly -- a scientific doppelganger used to study human memory formation—these changes take place in multiple parts of the insect brain. Scientists have now been able to pinpoint a handful of neurons where certain types of memory formation occur.