A study in mice suggests infantile amnesia is not a failure of memory, but a developmentally useful process guided by brain ...

How discovering that different parts of the brain work together as networks has transformed our understanding of everything ...

Stressful study sessions help us pass exams, but curiosity promotes long-term understanding and information retention. In A ...

A massive international brain study has revealed that memory decline with age isn’t driven by a single brain region or gene, ...

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 ...

The hippocampus serves as the primary learning and memory center of the brain, but this is not where our memories are held. Rather, memory traces or engrams are represented by the connections between ...

Brain development does not end at 25 but continues into the early 30s as neural networks become more efficient and ...

How do we hear, and how does hearing affect how we play music? These questions are central to the work of Nikolas Alejandro ...

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 parts of ...

Your memory relies on reusing, overlapping and adapting rather than on a fixed number of storage spots. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...