Monthly Archives: July 2019

Judgment depends on memory. New research appears to show that remembering task and decision-making sequences involves a later replay of those processes directed by a structure in the brain called the hippocampus. Replay in the hippocampus is critical to forming memories but also to learning which of our behaviours and decisions are most effective at accomplishing a particular or perhaps related goal. The hippocampus is damaged in Alzheimer’s disease and usually in Alcohol Related Brain Disease. This process of ‘replay’…..

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