The human brain holds a staggering number of connections, yet scientists have long struggled to explain how it stores so much ...

Neuroscientists and psychologists have been trying to understand how the human brain supports learning and the encoding of ...

Scientists have found that your brain separates memories into “what” and “where/when” using two different groups of neurons.

A study in the journal Science presents compelling new evidence that neurons in the brain’s memory centre, the hippocampus, continue to form well into late adulthood. The research from Karolinska ...

As far back as Plato and Aristotle, people believed that our memories had to be physical somethings that were stored somewhere in the brain. But only in modern times have we learned much about what ...

Neurons that track which direction an animal faces can hold their firing patterns steady for months, even as other brain ...

Certain nerve cells in the brain become active whenever they are confronted with different images or the name of a specific person or the identity of an object. They are highly selective and do not ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." There are so many reasons—normal, non-scary reasons—why we forget things, whether it’s the name of that ...

The human brain must be able to link memory content to the circumstances in which it occurs. Researchers in Bonn have now discovered how the human brain uses two different groups of neurons to store ...

Many people fear the loss of their cognitive faculties as they age. However, some people, described as super-agers, maintain ...