I read somewhere that if you were to condition a worm to roll up everytime you flash a light by giving it an electric shock, and you cut it in half so that you end up with 2 worms (heads grow new tails, tails grow new heads) both worms will curl up if you flash the light.. (from the article I understand this was an actual experiment done) anyone know anything about this? Kind of bizarre really but what would this mean about memory?

There has been a number of experiments done in the past (40 years ago) with Rats. Once they had learned to negotiate a maze correctly, their brains were ground up and fed to untrained rats. These untrained rats learnt to complete the same maze in less than half the time, of their unfortunate cousins.
This ability was seen to confirm that the basis of memory was probably chemical (dna?)

Present day tests with Octopii, (large brained) show that they have an amazing ability to
remember their way thru a complicated 3D water maze.

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While it is off-topic, most people don't think of octopii as the smart predators they are:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7004909622962894202&q=octopus

Planarian maze research was overall discredited. They lay down a mucus track and follow it thereafter. When the mazes were propery cleaned between runs there was little supportive data.

Much mouse data is similarly discredited for mice laying down urine dribble tracks.

Personally i'd like to know. How long can a subject or issue be revise from short to long term memory before it becomes to much and your mind ignores it causing however long spent revising worthless?

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There must have been an lot of discoverys about memory, since this 'gogo' topic was first discussed here, 5 years ago.
Seems if you have a reason to continually revise something, it is going to become part of your 'long term memory' anyway?
My experience is, that 'long term memory' is better imprinted while you are young. ie School memory's.
And what about Short term memory?...Well I can hardly rem what I did last week.

An Australian study, which was published in the latest edition of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology recently. Found that people grumbling their way through the grimness of winter, have better recall than those enjoying a carefree sunny day.
A Sydney news agency was used by the University of New South Wales research team to test whether people's moods had an impact on their ability to remember small details.
The team placed 10 small items on the shop counter and quizzed shoppers about what they remembered seeing upon their exit.
Joseph Forgas, lead researcher for the team, said subjects were able to remember three times as many items on cold, windy, rainy days when there was somber classical music playing as they were when conditions were sunny and bright.

I also wrote here in 'scggogo' sometime ago, about cocktails of "Memory Enhancers" that some College Students take before examinations, as well as 'Mnemonics', as used to help in memory recall.

Then again a few lucky people seem to have perfect memory recall
after hearing or reading something,....just the once.
Again, every one of us if subjected a real frightening experience just the once...seem to have great difficulty in ever forgetting it how ever-hard we try.

Well thats all well and good...bt can you ever revise to much in a short period of time, does your time spent revising become worthless at a certain point where your mind treats what it's revising as new learning and puts it in short term memory because of the masses of information that is being revised?

Why does a very old person not remember what they had for breakfast, but have a very detailed recall of events of childhood 90 year ago? Why should the short term memory wear out earlier when it is the part of the brain that is exercised more throughout life than the long term? We are told over and over that we must 'use it or lose it'--- but not in the brain apparently!

in computer terms memory is a storage area of the computer that allow the computer to store the data so that it refer this data in future....


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