Author: Exuperist / Source: Neatorama
When we learn to associate certain cues and stimuli to a particular result or event, and an additional stimulus is introduced in conjunction with it, there is a phenomenon wherein our minds will not associate the event with the added stimulus. This is called “memory blocking” and it was thought that this was due to the problem of forming memories.
But researchers from the University of Toronto have looked into the mind of the C. elegans worm in order to figure out how this phenomenon occurs. And they found out that it has nothing to do with forming memories and instead,The post Inside the Mind of a Worm: How Do Memories Form? appeared first on FeedBox.