For decades, scientists have focused on the brain as the primary location for memory storage and processing. However, recent groundbreaking research from is challenging this long-standing assumption, ...

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Significant scientific advances often come after previous models of understanding are overturned, and the team is excited to see where this line of research will take them. "This new finding has ...

Memory is how we make sense of our days — remembering names, finding our way home, telling the same favorite story again and again. When dementia enters the picture, those pieces of memory can start ...

A research team has identified, for the first time in humans, and in a realistic environment, a key neurophysiological mechanism in memory formation: ripple-type brain waves—high-frequency electrical ...

People with dementia may have trouble remembering recent events or conversations. Common items may be put in unusual places, like a wallet in the refrigerator. Mood changes, such as becoming withdrawn ...

The world of AI has been moving at lightning speed, with transformer models turning our understanding of language processing, image recognition and scientific research on its head. Yet, for all the ...

What if the future of artificial intelligence is being held back not by a lack of computational power, but by a far more mundane problem: memory? While AI’s computational capabilities have skyrocketed ...

McGill University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. McGill University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. The puzzle of memory has intrigued philosophers and ...

Our memories form the foundation of our continuing sense of self. Our understanding of who we are is built up from a lifetime of experiences stored in our brain. Loss of that information about who you ...

Scientists discover a new pathway to long-term memory formation in the brain that can bypass the formation of short-term memory. Researchers from Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience have ...