Closely related to a scope’s maximum sample rate is its maximum available acquisition memory depth. Even though a scope may have a maximum sample rate that might be considered fast enough to capture ...

Oscilloscope users rely on top-level specifications in determining the value of one oscilloscope relative to another. Three key specifications – bandwidth, sample rate, and acquisition memory depth – ...

When you are first learning how to ride a bicycle or play a musical instrument, your physical movements are uncoordinated at best. But with time and lots of repetition, your brain's motor neurons ...

The remarkable ability of cells in the brain to store and process information has fascinated scientists for centuries. To accomplish this feat, neurons must have mechanisms to generate both transient ...

In the late 19th century German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus published an influential book exploring memory and learning. Ebbinghaus was the first to chronicle a learning phenomenon which became ...

Researchers at EPFL have found that an existing drug used to treat cancer, among other things, also seems to improve memory. Intriguingly, tests in mice show that the drug works by switching on genes ...