Humans can remember various types of information, including facts, dates, events and even intricate narratives. Understanding ...

The researchers found that people often summarize entire episodes of a story into single sentences, leading to the conclusion that narratives are stored in memory as tree structures. In this model, ...

While the underlying mechanism is unclear, neuroscientists theorize saying something out loud separates and distinguishes it from “mere” thoughts. (You didn’t just think it. You also heard it.) That ...

Computer model helps make sense of human memory Date: October 7, 2019 ... The team will next move beyond a simple model toward one with additional parameters that better represents the hippocampus ...

But remarkably, it often works. The Ising model is now a workhorse of statistical mechanics. Variations on its theme can be heard in just about every corner of the study of complex, collective ...

Much of what scientists know about human memory comes from studies involving relatively simple acts of recollection — remembering lists of words or associations between names and faces. However, they ...

The researchers tweaked their model to account for randomness, which improved its accuracy. “Without that noise aspect, the model would fail,” Lynn said. “It wouldn’t produce anything that worked, ...