Several times a day, I can be washing dishes, just turning my head, or catching a particular angle ...

A new study challenges the long-standing belief that episodic and semantic memory rely on distinct brain systems.

In a breakthrough discovery, an international team of neuroscientists has identified how individual neurons in the brain fire differently when a new memory is formed. This is the first time ...

Part personal narrative, part primer on the science of memory, and part exploration of the implications of cutting-edge brain ...

There are, in other words, very good reasons someone might throw up their hands and decide that making the trek to gather with loved ones just isn’t worth it. What can we put on the other side of the ...

A new study finds the hippocampus reorganizes memories to predict rewards. This discovery explains how the brain learns and why Alzheimer's affects decision-making.

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 ...

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 ...

Neuroscientists have discovered that when someone recalls an old memory, a representation of the entire event is instantaneously reactivated in the brain that often includes the people, location, ...

Can memories truly be read from the brain’s structure alone? A global survey of neuroscientists reveals surprising agreement on some points, and sharp divides on others, with implications for future ...