Long-term memory /newsroom/taxonomy/term/5477/all en Discovery of a new key player in long-term memory /newsroom/channels/news/discovery-new-key-player-long-term-memory-325183 <p>A ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ-led multi-institutional research team has discovered that during memory consolidation, there are at least two distinct processes taking place in two different brain networks – the excitatory and inhibitory networks. The excitatory neurons are involved in creating a memory trace, and the inhibitory neurons block out background noise and allow long-term learning to take place.</p> Tue, 06 Oct 2020 15:32:41 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 242184 at /newsroom