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MIT researchers have found that information is stored not by persistent neural activity, but by the pattern of the connections, or synapses, formed among neurons.
Findings support modern thought that neural networks store information by making short-term alterations to the synapses. The study sheds new light on short-term synaptic plasticity in recent memory storage.
Between the time you read the Wi-Fi password off the café's menu board and the time you can get back to your laptop to enter it, you have to hold it in mind.
Get latest articles and stories on Science at LatestLY. Between the time you read the Wi-Fi password off the cafe s menu board and the time you can get back to your laptop to enter it, you have to hold it in mind. Science News | Research Suggests Holding Information in Mind May Mean Storing It Among Synapses.