A child's brain, she explains, changes on a molecular level when she learns to walk, learns to talk, stores a memory, laughs, cries.
A key question to be addressed about the engram is what principle underlies the organization of neurons storing a memory.
Songbirds learn their vocalizations by storing a memory, or 'template', of their tutor's song (Doupe and Kuhl, 1999).
Marr [ 11] proposed that the hippocampus provides this function by storing a memory "index," a distilled representation containing the essence of the memory, which is synaptically linked to the full representation stored in the neocortex.
Decades after an event, few of the molecules originally present will still be around, so the mechanism that stores a memory must allow newly synthesized molecules to be updated by molecules that already 'contain' the memory.
The data on many of these cards are stored in ferroelectric memory, a type of memory that needs no power to "remember" data.
DNA tape recorder stores a cell's memories.
Yet scientists have long cautioned that the brain is not a filing cabinet, storing memories in a way that they can be pulled out, consulted and returned intact.
Lily stores up memories for a future she knows is "not bright".
September is a month for storing up memories, to be recalled during the short, cold days of winter.
