What is the best time to study? A new study uses Aplysia (sea slugs) to show that a 24-hour interval between learning events ...

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

Memory loss often feels like something that arrives late in life. In reality, the story may begin much earlier, long before ...

Letting an AI assistant handle the hard parts of thinking feels efficient in the moment, but a growing body of cognitive science research suggests that convenience comes at a measurable cost. When ...

Age-related memory decline and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's are often thought of as irreversible. But the brain is not static; neurons continually adjust the strength of their ...

Complex protein interactions at synapses are essential for memory formation in our brains, but the mechanisms behind these processes remain poorly understood. Now, researchers have developed a ...

It is now understood that the hippocampus is closely linked to learning and memory (Doidge, 2015; Suzuki, 2015). However, this was not always the case. One prominent experiment investigating memory, ...