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The Brain Behind Learning and Remembering Simultaneously
According to them, brain is in a constant struggle between learning new experiences and remembering old experience. All social interactions require the rapid exchange of new and old information.
The research team including Willem Huijbers, Cyriel Pennartz, and Sander Daselaar of the Netherlands' University of Amsterdam, and Roberto Cabeza of Duke University have found that a brain region can resolve the conflict by improving the rapid switch between learning and remembering.
During the study involving a group of adults in their 20s, the researchers used a novel memory task that forced learning and remembering to occur within a brief period of time.
The participants were asked to look at a set of regular words presented in the middle of a screen. They rapidly tried to remember whether the words had previously been studied or not. Simultaneously, a set of colourful pictures was presented in the background.
In another memory task, participants were asked to view colourful background pictures instead of the words.
The test showed that learning the pictures is much more difficult when simultaneously remembering a word. At the same time, learning the pictures becomes easier when a word is forgotten.
The brain scans revealed that the brain areas involved in learning of the pictures were also less activated when words were simultaneously remembered.
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