By Adrien Marenco Courtesy of Yuri Shirota via Unsplash Most people’s first memory comes from when they were around 3 to 4 years old and experienced an emotionally important or mildly traumatic ...

Forgetting isn't failure; it's fuel. Learn how strategic forgetfulness can actually help your memory—and your ...

Past neuroscience and psychology studies have shown that after the human brain encodes specific events or information, it can ...

For years, scientists believed that our first memories vanished because the brain wasn’t developed enough to store them. But ...

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, President: TOKUDA Hideyuki, Ph.D.) has revealed, through fMRI-based brain activity analysis, that multiple regions in the ...

New research from the University of Chicago challenges long-held beliefs about how synaptic plasticity contributes to memory ...

Sleep reorganizes neural patterns in a way that helps memories take hold and prepares the brain for new information.

MRI scans show that the brains of infants and toddlers can encode memories, even if we don’t remember them as adults ...

Concepts encoded by concept neurons can be an animal, an article of clothing, a place, or a person. The concept can be evoked ...

Resilience relies on the brain’s ability to regulate emotion, adapt, and recover. Myelin plasticity helps speed up and stabilize resilient brain responses. Genes like FKBP5 and BDNF affect how people ...

New research on the hippocampus, a brain area essential for memory, suggests that new rules of synaptic plasticity best explain how brain activity continually reshapes the way memories are recorded in ...

A patient who sustained aphasia due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis has regained the ability to communicate after receiving a brain-machine interface implant, a hospital in Beijing announced on ...