People with higher reasoning skills appear to be better at forming internal maps of how different objects are related in ...

In an important study for understanding how memories are made, cientists show that the flexibility of chromatin -- packaged DNA inside the cell -- plays a crucial role in 'deciding' which neurons are ...

Past psychology studies suggest that people tend to remember emotional events, such as their wedding, the birth of a child or traumatic experiences, more vividly than neutral events, such as a routine ...

Memory defines us in so many ways, but it’s not exactly what we think it is. We tend to imagine memory almost like a filing cabinet — a faithful record of the past we can pull from when needed. But ...

A painter uses art to explore memory, PTSD, and breakthroughs in neuroscience. Painter Viviane Silvera uses art to explore memory and PTSD, animating 30,000 images to provide a visualization of the ...

Have you ever put your keys down and then quickly forgotten where to find them? When you try to recall where you might have left them, you are drawing on working memory, which is the ability to ...

A new brain decoding method called mind captioning can generate accurate text descriptions of what a person is seeing or recalling—without relying on the brain's language system.

A new study published in Science Advances presents a method that converts human brain activity into coherent, descriptive text—even when the brain is not actively processing language. Instead of ...

New research reveals that memories of fatty and sugary foods are encoded in the hippocampus, helping explain why some cravings feel impossible to resist. Cravings may feel impulsive, but new research ...

Much like squirrels, black-capped chickadees hide their food, keeping track of many thousands of little treasures wedged into cracks or holes in tree bark. When a bird returns to one of their many ...