Plastic memories

Plastic germline reprogramming of heritable small RNAs enables maintenance or erasure of epigenetic memories

In Caenorhabditis elegans small RNAs can regulate genes across generations. The mysterious tendency of heritable RNA interference (RNAi) responses to terminate after 3-5 generations has been referred to as "the bottleneck to RNAi inheritance." We have recently shown that the re-setting of epigenetic inheritance after 3-5 generations is not due to passive dilution of the original RNA trigger, bu...

Dynamic Behavior of Resistive Random Access Memories (RRAMS) Based on Plastic Semiconductor

Resistive Random Access Memories based on metal-oxide polymer diodes are characterized. The dynamic behavior is studied by recording currentvoltage characteristics with varying voltage ramp speed. It is demonstrated that these organic memory devices have an internal capacitive double-layer structure, which inhibits the switching at high ramp rates (1000 V/s). This behavior is modeled and explai...

Memories

Memories Improbable: "Recovered Memories" in Perspective

Traumatic memories are not necessarily accurate memories.

Some therapists, as well as other commentators, have suggested that memories of horrific trauma are buried in the subconscious by some special process, such as repression, and are later reliably recovered. We find that the evidence provided to support this claim is flawed. Where, then, might these memory reports come from? We discuss several research paradigms that have shown that various manip...