A brief bout of physical exercise can create "ripples" of activity in your brain that help you store and retrieve memories.

The hippocampus is a crucial part of the brain that plays a role in memory and learning, especially in remembering directions ...

From putting your phone away to getting better at ‘chunking’, a neuroscience researcher explains how to make your memory ...

A study published in Nature by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine changes the way we understand memory. Until now, memories have been explained by the activity of brain cells called neurons ...

Whether it's riding a bike or knitting a sweater, there are some tasks you do without thinking. These are commonly associated ...

Scientists have uncovered a powerful new clue in the mystery of brain aging: a single protein called FTL1. In aging mice, higher levels of this protein weakened connections between brain cells and led ...

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Why does riding a bike feel natural again, even after years away? Scientists are unpicking muscle memory in your brain and ...

Though there are people capable of incredible feats of memory, true photographic memory has never been proven to exist ...