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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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