Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, ...

A surprising new brain study suggests that remembering life events and recalling facts may rely on the same neural machinery.

For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the ...

Traditionally, explicit long-term memory (the intentional, conscious recollection of things and experiences) is divided into ...

Stressful study sessions help us pass exams, but curiosity promotes long-term understanding and information retention. In A ...

There isn’t a hard line differentiating a false memory and simply misremembering where you put your keys. But, in general, ...

New research suggests intelligence arises not from a single brain region, but from how networks across the brain work together as an integrated system. Neuroscientists often describe the brain as a ...

A landmark international study that pooled brain scans and memory tests from thousands of adults has shed new light on how structural brain changes are tied to memory decline as people age. The ...

There’s a lot to love about brains. They are arguably the most complex organ in the entire human body. 86 billion neurons send electrical and chemical signals back and forth within your brain to ...

A neuroscientist survey shows that 40 percent think it might be possible to preserve a human brain, potentially well enough to decode its long-term memories after death. That opens the door to ...

Cancer and Alzheimer's disease are two of the most feared diagnoses in medicine, but they rarely strike the same person.