Traditionally, explicit long-term memory (the intentional, conscious recollection of things and experiences) is divided into ...
A surprising new brain study suggests that remembering life events and recalling facts may rely on the same neural machinery.
Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, ...
A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in ...
Why some memories persist while others vanish has fascinated scientists for more than a century. Now, new research from the ...
Researchers from Sweden have discovered that the human brain continues to grow new cells in the memory region—called the hippocampus—even into old age. Using advanced tools to examine brain samples ...
Stressful study sessions help us pass exams, but curiosity promotes long-term understanding and information retention. In A ...
How the human brain organizes its visual memories through precise neural timing has been discovered. Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC; CA, USA) have made a significant ...
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 ...
Cancer and Alzheimer's disease are two of the most feared diagnoses in medicine, but they rarely strike the same person.