Neuroscientists are tracking the brain activity that underlies a cognitive breakthrough and unraveling how it might boost ...

Humans are undeniably unique among all the animals in the world. Our capacity for complex thinking is far above that of any other animal, so it is no surprise that researchers want to know why. In ...

The brain is our body’s command center, the control tower for our body and mind—no wonder it’s the focus of intense research across the globe, with so much interest in figuring out the mysteries of ...

How discovering that different parts of the brain work together as networks has transformed our understanding of everything ...

The hippocampus serves as the primary learning and memory center of the brain, but this is not where our memories are held. Rather, memory traces or engrams are represented by the connections between ...

A massive international brain study has revealed that memory decline with age isn’t driven by a single brain region or gene, ...

Consciousness researchers studying “islands of awareness” have found that disconnected brains likely sink into a strange form ...

Your memory relies on reusing, overlapping and adapting rather than on a fixed number of storage spots. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Can the brain keep working when its architecture changes? Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have discovered ...

An international research group succeeded in identifying the probable origin of stuttering in the brain. An international research group led by researchers from the University of Turku and Turku ...