Memory Boosted When Brain Is In ‘Encoding Mode’ (M)
- What predicts why you remember some information and forget the rest?
In encoding mode, neurons in the hippocampus are firing at an accelerated rate.Unfortunately, neuroscientists do not yet know how to put the hippocampus into encoding mode.
“‘Encoding mode’, is more than simply paying attention to the task at hand.
It is paying attention to encoding, which selectively ramps up activity in the part of the brain that is the most important for making new memories: the hippocampus.
Since we know, based on earlier research, that people can actively suppress memory formation, it might be possible for people to get their hippocampus ready to encode as well.
But how one might go about doing that, we just don’t know yet.”
“We think new memories are created by sparse collections of active neurons, and these neurons get bundled together into a memory.
This work suggests that when a lot of neurons are already firing at high levels, the neuronal selection process during memory formation works better.”
Neuroscientists have also suggested the brain has a ‘retrieval mode’ for when we want to recall memories.
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