Astrocytes: The Unsung Heroes of Learning and Memory - Neuroscience News
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Astrocytes: The Unsung Heroes of Learning and Memory - Neuroscience News
As a result of learning, the brain changes. Neuroplasticity does not tell us how to learn better or what pedagogical techniques work best for effective learning. To do that, you need to go one step further — to cognitive science or psychology. To strengthen recall, it is essential to present complementary visual and linguistic information together ... See more
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Neuroplasticity in the adult brain is gated by neuro-modulators. Epinephrine creating alertness and attention, asidocoline highlighting what happens during the alertness for later plasticity and strengthening the neurons making them more likely to fire later.
Andrew Huberman • How Your Brain Works & Changes
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It refers to the ability of neurons to always forge new connections. Neuroplasticity, at its essence, is the process of the brain wiring and rewiring itself.
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neuroplasticity. This property of neurons allows for the connection between different domains of the brain, and thereby different functional components such as sensations, images, feelings, thoughts and bodily actions.
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Melanie Boly, a neurologist and neuroscientist at the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is painstakingly collecting EEG data from long-term Buddhist meditators during a state known as pure presence, an experience with no self, no discursive thoughts, and no perceptual content except for a luminous expanse, an empty mirror. Att
... See moreChristof Koch • Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It
Once a synaptic memory is formed, the neurons can now rest: when they stop firing, the memory remains dormant, unconscious but inscribed in the very anatomy of my neuronal circuits. In the future, thanks to those connections, an external clue (say, a photo of the presidential office) may suffice to produce a cascade of neuronal activity in the orig
... See moreStanislas Dehaene • How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
Synapses are the gaps between the neurons. Memories are stored in patterns of energy in neurons, similarly to a piano, where the different keys combined together form a song. The keys (electrical activity) dictates our memories and experiences.
Andrew Huberman • How Your Brain Works & Changes
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Neuroscientist Michael Merzenich agrees. Merzenich, described as the world’s leading researcher on brain plasticity, explains that new functional circuits in the brain can only be achieved through repetition. His description of the brain is of something which alters itself with attention and exercise, almost like a separate, living entity. It is al
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