“Our long-term goal is to empower people with the ability to tune their own brains for learning,” said Poh. “By understanding ...

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) and Duke University ...

A study from the University of East Anglia is helping scientists better understand how our brains remember past events—and how those memories can change over time. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

Recently, there has been convergence of thought by researchers in the fields of memory, perception, and neurology that the ...

In a breakthrough discovery, an international team of neuroscientists has identified how individual neurons in the brain fire differently when a new memory is formed. This is the first time ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Todd Sacktor was about to turn 3, his 4-year-old sister died of leukemia. “An empty bedroom next to mine. A swing set with two ...

There are, in other words, very good reasons someone might throw up their hands and decide that making the trek to gather with loved ones just isn’t worth it. What can we put on the other side of the ...

Neuroscientists have discovered that when someone recalls an old memory, a representation of the entire event is instantaneously reactivated in the brain that often includes the people, location, ...

You can use up all the storage on your phone or max out your computer's drive, but can you use up all the memory space in your brain? Despite how you might feel before an exam or after a sleepless ...

Can memories truly be read from the brain’s structure alone? A global survey of neuroscientists reveals surprising agreement on some points, and sharp divides on others, with implications for future ...

With aging comes change; wrinkles, gray hair, and height differences are all a part of the mix. But it’s not just the cosmetic transformations that people fear. According to a study from the Global ...