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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I feel like it is just a reaction that is telling us our memories and what all happened at that time. I think they are just testing different people but I think they should test normal people and then people with epilepsy and see what is the difference and how both of there brains function with this testing.
I don't know what it is. I think they should do some more tests but I do definitely think it has to do with a reaction or something. They only tested people with epilepsy but I also agree that they should test healthy people.
I think that the brain waves have to do with the memory, testing people who have epilepsy because epileptic people have brain handicapps and can't do things as well and they wanted to see what it was like on them first. testing brains but also can be very dangerous
Although I am not educated in things like this I think the waves have something to do with the memory or it could be the emotion they are feeling. I think they should have tested multiple people with and without epilepsy to see how each of their brains react. Maybe epileptic people have different brain functions.
I think that the brain waves have to do with the memory; not sure about the emotion they are feeling. Yet, I also think they should have tested people with and without epilepsy.
It's kinda hard to say what the waves could be carrying. You could agrue either way. They might of tested people with epilepsy to get a better understanding on how their brain works and functions. It could of been a good learning moment, and they might of discovered more about the disease.
I think that you could argue either way too. I am curious as to how they are going to find out what the waves are or what they are carrying. I am also wondering why they are just testing like this now?
I think that the waves are carrying to the memory. If the waves act and look the same as the memory waves, then I don't think the brain is reacting to anything else. I think that the scientists are testing people who have epilepsy because epileptic people have brain handicapps and can't do things as well and they wanted to see what it was like on them first.
I think that it is hard to say whether the waves are carrying the memory or just reacting to something else. It is easier to believe that the waves are just reactions, but the article makes it sound like the waves could be carrying information since they were triggered when the patient was asked to recall something.
I agree. It is hard to tell if they are just carrying the memory or just reacting to something else. They need to do more testing on it and get clearer results to find a conclusion.
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