No. 24 (2024): Forgetting & Remembering

How does the human memory work and, when someone gets Alzheimer’s, what happens in their brain? Research at Heidelberg University has been – and still is – involved in decoding such questions. The 24th edition of the research magazine RUPERTO CAROLA highlights the issues Heidelberg academics are currently exploring on the topic of FORGETTING & REMEMBERING. Alongside fresh findings from medicine, neurophysiology and psychology it deals, for instance, with the culture of remembrance, the forgotten origin of the Earth’s rocks, secrets from long past ages stored in geoarchives, a “Mameluke Wikipedia” from medieval Cairo or novel “memory materials” for storing information.