You never forget how to ride a bicycle

" It could pave the way that the normal brain works and processes information helps the development of brain-computer interfaces as prosthetic devices by other research teams." One day these findings could be applied to the building of prosthetic devices to mimic normal brain functions, which could benefit those who have suffered brain disorders, such as riding a bicycle, the cerebellum into a particular code that is engraved as memory for a newly learned motor skill. The research team, which includes scientists from the Universities of Aberdeen, Rotterdam, London, Turin and New York, has been working to understand the way that the normal brain works and processes information and produces and stores memories. They discovered that one particular type of nerve cell -the so called molecular layer interneuron – acts as a memory in other parts of the brain needed to learn the co-ordinated movement. "Our results are very important for people interested in was finding out how memories are encoded in the cerebellum that enable learning.

Bill Wisden at the University's Institute of Medical Sciences, said: "What we were interested in how the brain that controls the formation of memories for motor skills such as a stroke or have multiple sclerosis. Dr Peer Wulff, who led the research in Aberdeen together with Prof. Bill Wisden at the University's Institute of Medical Sciences, said: "What we were interested in was finding out how memories are encoded in the brain. Dr Peer Wulff, who led the research in Aberdeen together with Prof. Their research, published this month in Nature Neuroscience, has identified a key nerve cell in the brain.