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

By studying sea slugs, scientists learned that reviewing information exactly 24 hours later is the best way to strengthen ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A brief gene pulse in learning-activated engram neurons restored memory in aged and Alzheimer’s-model mice. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) ...

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

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

What is the best time to study? A new study uses Aplysia (sea slugs) to show that a 24-hour interval between learning events ...

“If we go back to the early 1900s, this is when the idea was first proposed that memories are physically stored in some location within the brain,” says Michael R. Williamson, a researcher at the ...

Researchers identify "meal memory" neurons in laboratory rats that could explain why forgetting lunch leads to overeating. Scientists have discovered a specific group of brain cells that create ...

We often think of memory as stable—a mental archive that stores experiences in neat, retrievable files. But what if those files quietly shift positions, even when the original experience hasn’t ...

Age-related memory decline and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s are often thought of as irreversible. But the brain is not static; neurons continually adjust the strength of their ...

A 25-year study of ‘superagers’ reveals the brain and lifestyle factors that help some older adults defy typical memory decline, offering clues for boosting cognitive resilience across the lifespan.

The barrel cortex, a specialised region within the rodent somatosensory cortex, plays a central role in the processing of tactile information derived from the whiskers. Recent studies have elucidated ...