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

The human brain holds a staggering number of connections, yet scientists have long struggled to explain how it stores so much ...

How does APOE4 cause Alzheimer's? A new study identifies the Nell2 protein as the driver of neuron shrinkage and brain ...

Japanese scientists have found that age—related decline in long-term memory is not caused by its disappearance, but by ...

By studying sea slugs, scientists learned that reviewing information exactly 24 hours later is the best way to strengthen ...

Why are we able to recall only some of our past experiences? A new study led by Jun Nagai at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan has an answer. Surprisingly, it turns out that the brain cells ...

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

Scientists at the University of Bonn have found out how the human brain stores memories: it turned out that the content and ...

For the millions of people who carry the gene APOE4, the strongest known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, their ...

For memories to be useful, the brain must connect what happened with the situation in which it occurred. Researchers at the University of Bonn have ...