Neuroscientists have ‘hacked’ the brain’s memory pathways with a new prosthetic system that could help improve the recollection of specific memories. The deep brain technology can’t remind you whether you’ve turned off the oven just yet, but research led by Wake Forest University (WFU) and the University of Southern California (USC) has now shown it can sometimes help people recall particular images with greater ease. Electrical and magnetic brain stimulation have recently emerged as promising new ways to give overall cognitive performance a boost, but until this recent breakthrough the idea of a brain ‘zap’ to recollect discrete details was the work…