Emotions, the passage of time, and mental associations directly shape how we recall moments that are not entirely faithful to ...

As humans and other animals experience new things, their brains continuously update their memory of past events. These ...

Our memories of past events are typically not isolated, but they are linked to other related memories. This ability to ...

Every day, the brain is flooded with fleeting impressions, yet only a small fraction hardens into the stories we carry for a lifetime. Scientists are now tracing that winnowing process in remarkable ...

Scientists have uncovered a stepwise system that guides how the brain sorts and stabilizes lasting memories. By tracking brain activity during virtual reality learning tasks, researchers identified ...

A study from the University of East Anglia is helping scientists better understand how our brains remember past events - and how those memories can change over time. A new paper published today ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Todd Sacktor was about to turn 3, his 4-year-old sister died of leukemia. “An empty bedroom next to mine. A swing set with two ...

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New research reveals a cascade of molecular timers unfolding across the hippocampus, thalamus, and cortex determine whether short-term impressions consolidate into long-term memory, with implications ...

Researchers use cryo-EM to reveal how the NMDA receptor's Asn cage filters calcium from magnesium to drive learning and ...

How the human brain organizes its visual memories through precise neural timing has been discovered. Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC; CA, USA) have made a significant ...

A mouse learns to associate a sound with a mild shock, and within seconds the experience is encoded. But whether that memory ...