The hippocampus is a crucial part of the brain that plays a role in memory and learning, especially in remembering directions and locations. New research from the University of Chicago shows how this ...
Ordinary human cells, not just neurons, respond more strongly to memory signals when they arrive in spaced bursts rather than ...
A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks. Researchers expected clear differences but instead found strong overlap ...
The brain is often described as a dense forest of connections, and for years scientists have searched for ways to trim that ...
As humans and other animals experience new things, their brains continuously update their memory of past events. These ...
A massive international brain study has revealed that memory decline with age isn’t driven by a single brain region or gene, but by widespread structural changes across the brain that build up over ...
The researchers studied neural activity in 16 participants with epilepsy who had electrodes in their brains. Maskot via Getty Images Visualizing an object in the mind’s eye allows us to remember the ...
The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex. The largest part of the ...