How the Brain Makes Memories: Rhythmically
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In a discovery that challenges conventional wisdom on the brain mechanisms of learning, UCLA neuro-physicists have found there is an optimal brain “rhythm,” or frequency, for changing synaptic strength. And further, like stations on a radio dial, each synapse is tuned to a different optimal frequency for learning.
The findings, which provide a grand-unified theory of the mechanisms that underlie learning in the brain, may lead to possible new therapies for treating learning disabilities.
The study appears in the current issue of the journal Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience.Read the full article here.
One of the things that fascinates me most about the brain is while we’re dreaming. How can an organ create experiences that will convincingly drag on every sense with out every actually experiencing the experience. There is something obvious about the brain that has been forgotten and lost as common knowledge. They’re more like a transmitter than a closed off vessel. They are measurable, penetrable, readable and writable like memory on a computer disk. They can be hacked into, borrowed or stolen. Sounds a little insane. But I’ve felt that way because of dreaming. Anyone ever felt like that? As if your thoughts have been tampered with?
Keith