With the help of a simple memory trick, a research team led by an Indian origin scientist has shed light on how brain areas that form memories are organized.
A research team led by an Indian origin scientist has shed light on how brain areas that form memories are organized. They used a simple memory trick to achieve this.
The study shows that how perirhinal cortex can contribute to forming memories.
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It was previously believed that this association process occurred entirely in a brain structure called the hippocampus, but this appears not to be the case.
"We want to know how the brain areas that encode memory are organized," said Ranganath.
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During the study, Ranganath and his team used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to see which parts of the brain were active when volunteers memorized pairs of words such as "motor/bear" or "liver/tree."
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"It's a sort of memory trick," he said.
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The results suggest that the perirhinal cortex probably can form simple associations, such as between the parts of a complex object.
This information is probably passed up to the hippocampus, which may create more complex memories, such as the place and time a specific object was seen.
The findings are published Aug. 28 in the journal Neuron.
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