We often think of memories like the contents of a museum: static exhibits that we view to understand the present and prepare ...

Humans have the remarkable ability to remember the same person or object in completely different situations. We can easily ...

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

When a new memory forms the brain undergoes physical and functional changes known collectively as a “memory trace.” This memory trace represents the specific patterns of neuronal activity and ...

Researchers have created a protein that can detect the faint chemical signals neurons receive from other brain cells. By ...

As far back as Plato and Aristotle, people believed that our memories had to be physical somethings that were stored somewhere in the brain. But only in modern times have we learned much about what ...

“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 ...

The human brain must be able to link memory content to the circumstances in which it occurs. Researchers in Bonn have now ...

Singapore has one of the highest life expectancies in the world, yet many individuals spend almost a decade in poor health ...