Targeted transcranial electrical stimulation during short-wave sleep can boost episodic memory by almost 20%.
A new study challenges current understanding of how visual attention is focused, as well as the roles of long and short term memory.
A drug currently used to treat cancer appears to sharpen memory. Researchers believe the drug could help people with Alzheimer's disease and other memory disorders.
Forgetting unimportant information is an active neurological process, a new study reports.
Stowers researchers discovered that a prion-like protein plays a key role in storing long-term memories. Memories in our brains are...
Researchers have discovered a neural pathway in which the brain controls a specific molecule, connected to bipolar disorder and schizophrenia which is also critical to the formation of long term memory.
Neuropeptide Substance P may help mediate social memory in the CA2 area of the hippocampus, researchers report.
Environmental light has been shown to affect traumatic long-term memory retention in Drosophila.
Researchers have developed an artificial neural network that has been able to communicate with and learn human language.
When we suddenly get the answer to a riddle or understand the solution to a problem, we can practically feel...
Researchers report a new 'anti-radiation' medication can help protect astronauts' brains from the cosmic radiation of deep space.
Long-term memories remain 'silent' for about 2 weeks before reaching a mature state, a new study reports.
