Found the key of super memory that allows you to remember the smallest details even after many years. It was identified using functional magnetic resonance imaging to observe the brain of a group of volunteers working to reconstruct 20-year-old events, in the experiment published in the Cortex magazine by the Italian study conducted at the Santa Lucia Foundation in Rome and which has involved Sapienza University of Rome, Istituto Superiore di Sanità and University of Perugia.
The research identified the areas of the brain that allow memories with people with exceptional memories, the so-called 'hypermemory', to be dated, organizing information that in ordinary people remains indistinct and fuzzy memories.
Coordinated by Patrizia Campolongo, Valerio Santangelo, Tiziana Pedale and Simone Macrì, the researchers asked to remember an event of about 20 years before 8 hypermemory people and 21 people without particular skills or memory deficits, With functional magnetic resonance imaging they observed in real time brain activity of volunteers engaged in reconstructing memories and in this way they have identified the most active areas in this operation.
"The results show that in discriminating between old and new autobiographical memories, in people with hypermemory there is a high specialization in the ventro-medial part of the prefrontal cortex of the brain, an area believed to be responsible for organizing cognitive functions. higher, "the researchers note.
The same region of the brain seems to be less efficient in people with normal memory, "to the point of confusing the temporal dimension of memory, old or new".
The result that opens new frontiers of research for the neurorehabilitation of memory and of people with brain injuries. "Understanding the neurobiological systems underlying the hyper-functioning of memory - the researchers conclude - provides important indications on which areas it is necessary to intervene in order to stimulate the restoration of adequate functioning of memory in people with neurological deficits or lesions".
Found the key of super memory
2020-06-11T07:51:14.425Z
Identify areas of the brain that organize memories (ANSA)Found the key of super memory that allows you to remember the smallest details even after many years. It was identified using functional magnetic resonance imaging to observe the brain of a group of volunteers working to reconstruct 20-year-old events, in the experiment published in the Cortex magazine by the Italian study conducted at the Santa Lucia Foundation in Rome and which has involved Sapi...