Think your brain is too old to learn new tricks, let alone keep cognitive decline at bay? Think again. Research featured in ...

Unorthodox biologist Michael Levin says cognition lies on a spectrum and that what humans perceive as consciousness could ...

Consciousness is central to human experience, shaping everything we perceive and understand. Yet, its nature remains one of science’s greatest mysteries. In a recent video, author and science ...

Many of us have a brain that is older than our years. But there are plenty of things you can do to counteract this, says ...

Many people try to be more effective by multi-tasking. They actually become less productive. You can be more effective by single-tasking with time-boxing and time-blocking.

The new book Memory Lane convincingly demonstrates how memories are like Lego buildings that are constantly being rebuilt.

The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been identified by a team of neurologists and neurosurgeons at UCL.

The world is ageing quickly. People older than 64 years already outnumber children younger than five, and this asymmetry will continue to widen. As life expectancy increases and fertility rates ...

Infants can form memories, and they use a memory structure in the brain called the hippocampus to do it, researchers report in the March 21 Science. The results shore up the idea that memories can in ...

The hormonal upheaval in the run-up to menopause can cause cognitive difficulties. But researchers are also finding that this can be a critical window for protecting long-term brain health ...

The parts of the brain needed to remember words have been identified. Those areas are affected by a common form of epilepsy, ...

Elon Musk’s Neuralink may be the latest headline-grabber, but brain-to-computer interface (BCI) technology has been advancing ...