These four hands-on activities guide students to explore how their attention and memory function and how that impacts ...

As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people’s powers of recollection, I’m often asked how ...

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A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in retrieving different types of information, the findings could redefine how memory ...

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

Scientists at Skoltech developed a new mathematical model of memory that explores how information is encoded and stored. Their analysis suggests that memory works best in a seven-dimensional ...

In popular culture, we usually associate "muscle memory" with tasks we do, or skills we learn, without much conscious thought ...

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, perception, memory, language, and thought have been mapped onto distinct brain ...

Our brains may work best when teetering on the edge of chaos. A new theory suggests that criticality a sweet spot between order and randomness is the secret to learning, memory, and adaptability. When ...

Every thought, memory, and feeling we experience depends on trillions of tiny connection points in the brain called synapses.

The traditional boundaries between professional and personal life are increasingly blurred. The idea of work-life balance — where work and personal time are neatly divided — has given way to a more ...