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Scientists Discover How We Play Memories in Fast Forward

By Guest PostFebruary 17, 2016Health, Sciencebrain wave, chenguang zheng, fast, forward, frequency, how, juliette pepperell, laura colgin, memories, play, we

AUSTIN, Texas — Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered a mechanism that may explain how the brain can recall nearly all of what happened on a recent afternoon — or make a thorough plan for how to spend an upcoming afternoon — in a fraction of the time it takes to live out the experience. The breakthrough in understanding a previously unknown function in the brain has implications for research into schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorders, Alzheimer’s disease and other disorders where real experiences and ones that exist only in the mind can become distorted. (more…)

Sleep makes our memories more accessible, study shows

By Guest PostOctober 5, 2015Healthbiotechnology company, boost, induced systemic resistance, make, memories, movement behavior, salamander populations decline, sleep, terrestrial salamander, university of exeter, wild house mice

Sleeping not only protects memories from being forgotten, it also makes them easier to access, according to new research from the University of Exeter and the Basque Centre for Cognition, Brain and Language. (more…)

‘Memories of Buenos Aires,’ Edited by Max Page, Maps the Terror of Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’

By Guest PostNovember 21, 2013Politicsamherst, Argentina, buenos aires, central, democratic institutions, desaparecidos, dirty war, ilan stavans, intellectual, karen robert, max page, memoria abierta, memories, novelist julio cortazar, singer mercedes sosa, south america, st thomas university, state terrorism, terror, university of massachusetts

AMHERST, Mass. – Throughout Central and South America, there remains the palpable awareness of the decades-long “Dirty War,” in which the military and oligarchy joined forces in brutal and relentless repression of democratic institutions, and many tens of thousands people were simply marked for disappearance. That war has retained its own emotional and physical topography in the region, especially in Argentina, where as many as 30,000 citizens were killed after the generals seized power in 1976.

Now, Max Page, professor of architecture and history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has edited a new book that explores that topography and serves as an interpretive guide to the terror in Argentina, invoking the memory of the disappeared, the desaparecidos, in the memorials and hidden places of torture that mark the capital. (more…)

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Scientists Discover How We Play Memories in Fast Forward

Sleep makes our memories more accessible, study shows

‘Memories of Buenos Aires,’ Edited by Max Page, Maps the Terror of Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’