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Researchers Create Short-term Memories In Rat Brains
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers say they've found a way to store artificial short-term memories in isolated brain tissue. 'This is the first time anyone has found a way to store information over seconds about both temporal sequences and stimulus patterns directly in brain tissue,' says the study's lead. 'This paves the way for future research to identify the specific brain circuits that allow us to form short-term memories.' The peer-reviewed study can be found here (paywalled)."
Total Ratcall was it?
Or are the rats being sent to the atic?
Oh, and my name is Hauser or is it Quaid?
Silence is a state of mime.
I know kung-fu.
This will then lead to implanting false memories in people....
Removing tin foil hat now....
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So no, not "I just made a different life for you and implanted it in your head". But, maybe "I just made you remember it's be birthday next week"
lawyers remember ethics for a few seconds?
I'm not a lawyer, but I play one on the Internet. Blog
I might be an anomaly, but after highschool and college, I developed the ability to push things directly to long-term memory, and shortchange the short-term, removing the volatility.
I know I can do that, because the information and even the circumstances happening around me are stored such that I can recall them clearly now, years later. (The first time I did it was durng a cram session in science class concerning the simple machines physics test material in HS. I remember the entire circumstance clearly. Upon learning I could do this, I never had to really study again, just make the concious effort to store the information permanently. The most recent time I used it was last week over the holiday weekend. I visited a friend and took some extra days off. His parents wanted him to find some unusual ingredients for a recipe his dad had found online, and I memorized the missing items: mediteranean couscous, lemon preserves, and picholine olives.)
Let me know when they can deal with long term memories, because there is some stagnant data in my head that needs purging. I don't need to remember the conversation I had with the engineering student on the SW airlines return flight from my california vacation two years ago. That and numberous other things could safely be removed.
By the way, the above is a movie, and is well worth seeing if you have not.
tl;dr
Have gnu, will travel.
Do you want the template for Sharon (1990 Edition), Jessica or Kate, and do you also want the hooker with the..... nevermind, added...
So when do we uplift the chimpanzees and dolphins?
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BMO
Mass visions of Jesus to follow.
Nature is great and everything, but a paywalled Slashdot reference is like no link at all.
The rat army is coming! Humans will be next.
Let me know when I came wake up believing I just spent the night with Natalie Portman. That would be pretty awesome. Creepy? Yeah, but still awesome.
Sounds like you might have a case of Hyperthymesia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthymestic
The actress Marilu Henner supposedly has this condition. She claims to remember every day of her life since age 11.
Its rare, but it happens and apparently it can be a exhausting and a burden on the person.
Bring on splinter
"Commerce is our goal here at Tyrell. More rat than rat is our motto. Ratchael is an experiment, nothing more. We began to recognise in them a strange obsession. After all they are emotionally inexperienced, with only a few years in which to store up the experiences which you and I take for granted. If we gived them a past, we'd create a cushion, a pillow for their emotions and consequently we can control them better." (Tyrell)
"Memories. You're talking about memories." (Deckard)
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
You are in a maze of cheesy little movies, all alike?
Bill Stewart
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to be a rat or act like one!
Unless you are one of the pan-dimentional beings ofc ( http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Frankie_and_Benjy )
... not one of you cares for the animals who are tortured to death by these sadists. You pretend that it's 'research', when actually it's scumbags being paid to FAIL - they get paid no matter how long they waste on their 'research', even though 99% of the time it leads to nothing.
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Is hitting the ground. So all that crash investigation has been wasted: the answer is to prevent the aircraft from hitting the ground as soon as possible.[/sarcasm]
From scarped cliff or quarried stone she cries "A thousand types are gone, I care for nothing, no not one."
It isn't a record unless the lawyers were trying to remember ethics. Just remembering doesn't count.
From scarped cliff or quarried stone she cries "A thousand types are gone, I care for nothing, no not one."
"Researchers say they've found a way to store artificial short-term memories in isolated brain tissue. 'This is the first time anyone has found a way to store information over seconds about both temporal sequences andstimulus patterns directly in brain tissue,' says the study's lead. 'This paves the way for government to do all sorts of cool things, like tamper with judicial witnesses, implant false memories of political opponents in voters' minds, and directly program children with State-friendly thought patterns."
There, fixed it.
I want a way to remove memories from my brain.
That way, I can see a movie over and over again and still enjoy watching it.
Anyway, I hope advertisers don't get a hold on this invention.
If Pandora's box is destined to be opened, *I* want to be the one to open it.
From original Nature article:
"... , it has been difficult to link memories with changes in individual neurons or specific synaptic connections. We found that transient stimuli are reliably encoded in the ongoing activity of brain tissue in vitro. Patterns of synaptic input onto dentate hilar neurons predicted which of four pathways were stimulated with an accuracy of 76% and performed significantly better than chance for >15 s. Dentate gyrus neurons were also able to accurately encode temporal sequences using population representations that were robust to variation in sequence interval. These results demonstrate direct neural encoding of temporal sequences in the spontaneous activity of brain tissue and suggest a local circuit mechanism that may contribute to diverse forms of short-term memory. ..."
So my understanding is that researchers now are able predict how (in which neuronal circuits) information (neuronal stimulus) will be stored for short term. So the claim they found "how to store arteficial *memories* in isolated barai tissue" from blog post is unsubstantiated.
must've been breakfast
Nature's original mission statement:
To place before the general public the grand results of Scientific Work and Scientific Discovery
And current:
To make monney!!!
Of course what happens to rats after these experiments? Are they sacrificed? Ethnically cleansed?
I could see a possible use for this as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. Maybe "planting" extra memories that take the sting out of the traumatic experience.
Does this mean that our political leaders can now be made to remember their promises and lies to us?
What about a brain to internet machine. We can build a online story and submit it a reader's memory.