Feature Neuroscience

Year in review: Memories vulnerable to manipulation

Experiments reveal how brain forms, stores recollections

neurons in the brain

JUMBLED  The hippocampus (blue, mouse brain shown) churns out neurons (white) early in life that may disrupt memories from infancy.

Courtesy of Jason Snyder

By Laura Sanders

- More than 2 years ago

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Memories can often seem hazy, but the brain creates and destroys them with exacting precision. New experimental results reported in 2014 helped bring scientists closer to understanding how the brain manipulates memories to make sense of
the world.