A team of researchers has developed a way to significantly increase the memory of speckle patterns, the very complex patterns that result from shining a laser light onto an opaque sheet, such as paper ...

Our memory records details and detects patterns in everyday life—often without us even realizing it. Researchers at Lund University have for the first time succeeded in showing that the brain does ...

Human brains have a remarkable ability to separate streams of visual input into distinct memory-traces. It is unclear, however, how this ability relates to the way these inputs are explored via unique ...

A new study proves spontaneous hypothalamic histamine fluctuations gate moment-to-moment memory accessibility.

A team of Japanese neurologists and physiologists has found that momentarily suspending breathing in mice during a learning exercise can inhibit memory retention. In their study, reported in the ...

Each person is born into this world with a specific purpose, some say, and the same appears true for adult-born nerve cells, according to a study published in the 10 July issue of Science. Researchers ...

Experiences are encoded in memories that in turn guide future behavior. Newly formed episodic memories are constantly compared with, and discriminated from, previously encoded experiences, so that new ...