For a long time, neuroscientists treated this forgetting as a cognitive glitch or a simple lack of brainware maturity. But a ...

Researchers identify "meal memory" neurons in laboratory rats that could explain why forgetting lunch leads to overeating. Scientists have discovered a specific group of brain cells that create ...

A study tracking thousands of neurons shows how the brain separates memory content from context to support flexible recall.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Microscope image of neurons from a mouse's cortex colored in red yellow and green Our brain isn't the only place memories form in ...

Birds don’t get enough credit for the magnificent creatures they are. Many people have heard a black-capped chickadee ...

The human brain must be able to link memory content to the circumstances in which it occurs. Researchers in Bonn have now discovered how the human brain uses two different groups of neurons to store ...

“If we go back to the early 1900s, this is when the idea was first proposed that memories are physically stored in some location within the brain,” says Michael R. Williamson, a researcher at the ...

A new study shows that the human brain stores what we remember and the context in which it happens using different neurons.

The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.

A study by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine may change the way we understand memory. Until now, memories have been explained by the activity of neurons that respond to learning events and ...

We often think of memory as stable—a mental archive that stores experiences in neat, retrievable files. But what if those files quietly shift positions, even when the original experience hasn’t ...

October 19, 2011 — New studies in animal models show not only that stimulating targeted regions of the brain improves spatial memory but also that neurogenesis explains, at least in part, this ...