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Understanding exactly how we learn and remember has been a long-standing goal in science for many years, but investigations into the issue have thus far yielded inconclusive and contradictory results. Recently, a new study conducted on rats has revealed a new aspect of the problem. The team of investigators, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, has discovered that rats seem to plan their future actions on instant replays of their past activities. The study could offer new ways of analyzing how animals and humans remember and learn. “By understanding how thoughts and memories are structured, we can gain insight into how they might be disrupted in diseases and disorders of memory and thought such as Alzheimer's and schizophrenia. This understanding may lead to new methods of diagnosis and treatment,” the Picower Institute Sherman Fairchild Professor of Neuroscience, Matthew A. Wilson, explains. He is also the au!
thor of the new study, which was published in the August 27th issue of the journal Neuron. The team found that the hippocampus â€" the sea-horse-shaped structure inside the brain that is considered to play a fundamental role in learning and memory â€" had a large level of activity. Single neurons firing in this regi...
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