Scientists Just Transferred Memories... Between Sea Slugs
Scientists were able to transfer a specific memory from one sea slug to another! And research suggests that focusing on your breathing could help you focus on ...
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Sometimes, scientists do things that kinda seem impossible. Like, in a paper that came out on Monday, they took memories from one group of sea slugs and stuck them in other sea slugs — so that the second group seemed to remember something that had never happened to them. It’s an amazing feat of science, and it could someday help us understand human memory… but it’s also a little spooky. This experiment, which was published the journal eNeuro, was part of our decades-long search for an engram: a physical thing in our brains that contains our memories. For the record, we haven’t found one. The most common idea says that long-term memories are probably housed in the connections between neurons. But some researchers believe they’re stored in your non-coding RNA somehow. RNA is ...
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Sometimes, scientists do things that kinda seem impossible. Like, in a paper that came out on Monday, they took memories from one group of sea slugs and stuck them in other sea slugs — so that the second group seemed to remember something that had never happened to them. It’s an amazing feat of science, and it could someday help us understand human memory… but it’s also a little spooky. This experiment, which was published the journal eNeuro, was part of our decades-long search for an engram: a physical thing in our brains that contains our memories. For the record, we haven’t found one. The most common idea says that long-term memories are probably housed in the connections between neurons. But some researchers believe they’re stored in your non-coding RNA somehow. RNA is ...
