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)."

Comments

This reminds me of a movie...

[Ruvim]

Total Ratcall was it?

Re:They managed to make

[AshtangiMan]

Wow. What happened to make you despise the rats so much?

Re:David Brin to the white courtesy telephone

[hyades1]

Right after we do conservatives. Start with the hard job, move to the easier ones. ;-)