Post by pavel on Jan 14, 2016 21:24:14 GMT -6
Ever wonder why your brain can play back a full memory, but instead of taking the minutes or hours over which the actual experience was lived, cover it all in seconds?
Researchers at the University of Texas think they have found the reason. In a peer-reviewed article in the science journal Neuron, the researchers state they have found the way in which the brain “compresses information needed for memory retrieval, imagination or planning and encodes it on a brain wave frequency that’s separate from the one used for recording real-time experiences,” according to a UT release.
Basically, brain cells share information via brain waves, and different types of information travel on different types of waves — similar to the way different radio stations broadcast on different frequencies. One of those frequencies is the fast-forward one: it allows people to play memories or imagine what we’ll do in the future much faster than what actually happened or will happen.
This brain wave is used to store compressed information. This leads to some details being lost. Think of a photo you take on vacation: the high-resolution version is packed with detail, but a version compressed into a thumbnail loses detail.
Read more: www.mystatesman.com/news/news/ut-research-team-may-have-uncovered-fast-forward-m/np5C8/
Researchers at the University of Texas think they have found the reason. In a peer-reviewed article in the science journal Neuron, the researchers state they have found the way in which the brain “compresses information needed for memory retrieval, imagination or planning and encodes it on a brain wave frequency that’s separate from the one used for recording real-time experiences,” according to a UT release.
Basically, brain cells share information via brain waves, and different types of information travel on different types of waves — similar to the way different radio stations broadcast on different frequencies. One of those frequencies is the fast-forward one: it allows people to play memories or imagine what we’ll do in the future much faster than what actually happened or will happen.
This brain wave is used to store compressed information. This leads to some details being lost. Think of a photo you take on vacation: the high-resolution version is packed with detail, but a version compressed into a thumbnail loses detail.
Read more: www.mystatesman.com/news/news/ut-research-team-may-have-uncovered-fast-forward-m/np5C8/