Clever suppression in the brain: Neuron cells and their role in creating memories
Monday, June 16, 2014 - 11:31
in Biology & Nature
The hippocampus is a small structure in the brains of mammals that plays a crucial role in processing input from our senses and allows perceptions to be stored as memories. Nerve cells that inhibit the activity of other cells have now been shown to play a much larger and more complex role in these processes than previously assumed.