Comments on: Researchers Catch Individual Neurons in the Act of Remembering http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/09/05/researchers-catch-individual-neurons-in-the-act-of-remembering/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day's most compelling topics. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:43:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Matthew C. Tedder http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/09/05/researchers-catch-individual-neurons-in-the-act-of-remembering/comment-page-1/#comment-7797 Matthew C. Tedder Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:41:10 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/09/05/researchers-catch-individual-neurons-in-the-act-of-remembering/#comment-7797 Well yes, of course. Many believe that Short Term Potentiation (STP) of a neural receptor is the basis of short-term memory. I think what they identified here is more the crochet weaving needle of consciousness attention. Whatever makes it into conscious attention and for how long it stays there, it becomes a factor in weaving new memories. The memories themselves, of course, reside in different parts of the brain. Is it visual, auditory, factual? The brain has different areas for these but cognition involves weaving them together according to their relationships.. I could really give a lot of detail and evidence on this, but now and here are not the place. Well yes, of course. Many believe that Short Term Potentiation (STP) of a neural receptor is the basis of short-term memory. I think what they identified here is more the crochet weaving needle of consciousness attention. Whatever makes it into conscious attention and for how long it stays there, it becomes a factor in weaving new memories. The memories themselves, of course, reside in different parts of the brain. Is it visual, auditory, factual? The brain has different areas for these but cognition involves weaving them together according to their relationships..

I could really give a lot of detail and evidence on this, but now and here are not the place.

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