Not sure about you, but I'm actually quite looking forward to getting old. No job so lots of free time, a lifetime of savings ...

Neuroscientists and psychologists have been trying to understand how the human brain supports learning and the encoding of ...

Recent psychological research reveals that certain forms of strong memory can make people more prone to distortion, anxiety, and poor decisions, all while making them feel smarter and more accurate ...

A new study of neural oscillations during varying stages of consciousness shows that anesthesia doesn’t just knock us out—it ...

Building a model of the phenomenon you’re studying can help you understand how that thing works. Roadmaps are models of the highways and roads between here and there. We use them to predict how we ...

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 ...

Memory loss is often viewed as a brain problem, but the digestive system plays a major role. Research published in Nature shows that age-related bacterial changes disrupt nerve communication, and ...

The brain and the microbiome are in constant communication and maintaining that connection as we age could be key to avoiding—or even reversing—cognitive decline.

Memory sits at the center of how we learn, work, and maintain relationships. It shapes identity, supports decision-making, and allows experience to accumulate into knowledge. As public awareness of ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have created the first detailed map showing how genetic activity is controlled in ...