Ever heard of getting a "dopamine hit" from something you enjoy? These exciting moments also appear to influence memory, although perhaps not in the way you'd expect. New research by UCLA ...

Clewett, who leads the Adaptive Cognition, Memory, and Emotion Lab focused on understanding how the brain transforms ...

Tempus Fugit a Sign on the former Dyson's jewellers, Briggate, Leeds Source: Tim Green from Bradford, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Several years ago, during a discussion about possible studies ...

Ever hear the old adage that time flies when you're having fun? A new study by a team of UNLV researchers suggests that there's a lot of truth to the trope. Many people think of their brains as being ...

A collaboration between SISSA's Physics and Neuroscience groups has taken a step forward in understanding how memories are stored and retrieved in the brain. The study, recently published in Neuron, ...

Recently, there has been convergence of thought by researchers in the fields of memory, perception, and neurology that the same neural circuitry that produces conscious memory of the past not only ...

The amygdala connects to a cortical top-down circuit from motor to sensory cortices which controls accurate perception and memory of texture information, as Murayama's group previously discovered.