In a new study, scientists took 14 people with epilepsy and tracked their brain activity with electrodes. While playing a memory game, ripples formed in two areas of the brain, the medial temporal lobe and the temporal association cortex, when they were asked to recall something. These ripples traveled “at a rate of around 100 per second” and were similar to the brain activity when the memory was first formed. When you recall a memory, “you mentally jump back in time and re-experience it” according to a researcher. Scientists are not sure if the waves carry the information of the memory or are just a reaction of something else. These brain waves could possibly be the main part of a person's ability to remember.
Link: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ripples-brain-memories-recall
Do you think the waves are carrying the memory or are they just a reacting to something else?
My assumption would be that they are a reaction, connecting to something else, but also carrying the given information along.
Why would they test people who have epilepsy?
I don’t understand why they are specifically testing people who have epilepsy and not people who have normal brain functions; maybe they weren’t originally testing the recall of a memory.
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Well done Brianna!
I think the waves are carrying the memory.
I think they tested epilepsy pateince because they have brain activity that they monitor for the condition arleady.
I think that they are probably just reacting to the memory game but I am not entirely sure because I don't know a lot about epilepsy and how it affects people. Maybe they decided to test people with epilepsy because their minds work differently.
I think it is a reaction which tellls us what we should remember connected with somwthing else. I don't really understand why they specifically test those people, but I think there is a reason like you said. That they weren't testing the memory.
I think it is a reaction and it is telling us what we should remember and that it is carrying the reaction. I don't know why they are only testing people with epilepsy and not everyine else with normal brain. I think they should do more experiments with more people are more that don't have epilepsy.
I think they are reacting because when they first saw the thing that gave them the memory the brain did the same thing.
People with epliepsy have different brains than people who don't have it. They're brains probably react more which would explain why they could have a seizure if they saw bright flashing colors.
I don't really know what you're saying for the first part because you use the word thing so many times but ok. People with epilepsy just have the seizures from problems with the brain.
I think that it is a reaction and that is telling us what we should remember and carrying the information that it should have. I'm not sure why they only tested on people with epilepsy, I think the experiment later on should be tested on others. I think they should compare their results from both and see the differences, if there are any.
I also think the experiments later should be tested on others without epilepsy. I wouldn't think that their would be differences but maybe epilepsy affects a lot more than we know so far.
You think that the reaction is telling us that we should remember and it's carrying information. I don't know either why they have only tested people with epilepsy. I think that they needed to say why in the article.
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