Our episodic memory – the ability to recall past events and experiences – is known to decline as we age. Exactly how and why ...

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 more than a century, the story of the brain has been told as a tale of neurons, with every thought and memory traced to their electrical chatter. That narrative is now being rewritten as evidence ...

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

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 ...

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

Why some memories persist while others vanish has fascinated scientists for more than a century. Now, new research from the ...

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

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 ...

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, ...