Latest

Memory

·October 7, 2025·7 min read

What You Choose to Remember Shapes Memory More Than Emotion

A new study reveals that intentional memory control—deciding what to remember or forget—is more powerful than emotional influence when forming long-term memories. Participants were more likely to recall words they were told to remember than those carrying emotional weight, even though emotion sometimes strengthened recall or caused false memories.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·October 5, 2025·8 min read

Do You Get Déjà Vu? Memory Glitches Make Time Feel Repeated

Déjà vu—the eerie feeling that a new moment has happened before—has puzzled scientists and philosophers for centuries. Neuroscientists now believe it’s a normal brain glitch tied to how memory and perception interact.

This shows people walking with album covers and sound waves in the background.

Featured Neuroscience Neuroscience Videos Psychology

·October 5, 2025·6 min read

How Growing Up Changes the Way We Hear, and Feel, Music

Our music preferences evolve across life — from youthful exploration to nostalgic reflection. A large-scale analysis of 40,000 users’ streaming data over 15 years revealed that young listeners engage broadly with new and popular music, while adults settle into more personal and emotionally rooted tastes.

Featured Neuroscience

·October 3, 2025·9 min read

How the Brain’s GPS System Falters With Age

Spatial memory — the ability to recall “where” — is one of the first cognitive skills to decline in aging and a hallmark of dementia. Researchers found that in older mice, grid cells in the medial entorhinal cortex, which act like the brain’s GPS, became unstable and less precise.

Featured Neuroscience

·September 24, 2025·6 min read

Emotional Events Rescue Weak Memories, Making Them Last Longer

A new study reveals that emotionally charged or surprising events can retroactively and proactively rescue weak memories, ensuring they persist. The brain doesn’t just preserve the striking moment itself, but also mundane experiences connected to it, depending on timing and similarity.

This shows a person playing an instrument.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·September 24, 2025·5 min read

Positive Memories Boost Musicians’ Performance by Reframing Stress

A new study reveals that recalling positive memories before stepping on stage can significantly boost musicians’ performance. Professional wind instrumentalists who reflected on positive experiences showed higher nervous system activity, greater emotional positivity, and stronger arousal compared to those recalling negative or no memories.

Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·September 19, 2025·5 min read

Eye Movements Reveal Hidden Memories Beyond What People Report

A new study demonstrated that eye movements can serve as a powerful tool for detecting memory, even when people report not remembering. In experiments, participants rewatched animation clips with surprising events, and their gaze naturally shifted toward the spot of the surprise, indicating stored memory.

Featured Neuroscience

·September 16, 2025·5 min read

Brain Balances Rhythms to Switch Between Memory Recall and Novelty

Researchers discovered how the brain flexibly switches communication pathways depending on context, balancing between memory recall and processing new information. The mechanism depends on the interaction of slow (theta) and fast (gamma) rhythms, regulated by distinct inhibitory circuits.

Featured Neuroscience

·September 8, 2025·3 min read

REM Sleep Reactivation Locks Memories in Place

Rare adult-born neurons in the hippocampus are reactivated during REM sleep, locking waking experiences into long-term memory. Using genetically modified mice, they found that these neurons fire in the same patterns during sleep as they did during learning.

Featured Neuroscience

·September 3, 2025·5 min read

How the Brain Extinguishes Fear Memories

Scientists have, for the first time, identified the brain signals linked to extinguishing fear memories in humans. Using implanted electrodes and advanced Representational Similarity Analysis, they showed that theta activity in the amygdala increases when previously unpleasant cues are re-learned as safe.

This shows the outline of a woman, pills, and "negative memories" flowing from her head.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·August 29, 2025·5 min read

Hormonal Contraceptives Influence Memory of Emotional Events

A new study reveals that hormonal contraceptives may shape both emotional responses and memory processing in women. Compared with naturally cycling women, users of hormonal birth control had stronger emotional reactions and remembered fewer details of negative events when using regulation strategies like distancing or reinterpretation.

This shows a person walking in a room surrounded by books and photos.

Featured Neuroscience

·August 28, 2025·6 min read

Inside the Minds That Never Forget: Exploring Hyperthymesia

Autobiographical memory allows us to relive experiences, form identity, and project into the future. A rare few, known as hyperthymesics, can recall events from their lives with remarkable precision, linking them to specific dates and vivid sensory details.

1 2 3 4 … 237

Memory

What You Choose to Remember Shapes Memory More Than Emotion

Do You Get Déjà Vu? Memory Glitches Make Time Feel Repeated

How Growing Up Changes the Way We Hear, and Feel, Music

How the Brain’s GPS System Falters With Age

Emotional Events Rescue Weak Memories, Making Them Last Longer

Positive Memories Boost Musicians’ Performance by Reframing Stress

Eye Movements Reveal Hidden Memories Beyond What People Report

Brain Balances Rhythms to Switch Between Memory Recall and Novelty

REM Sleep Reactivation Locks Memories in Place

How the Brain Extinguishes Fear Memories

Hormonal Contraceptives Influence Memory of Emotional Events

Inside the Minds That Never Forget: Exploring Hyperthymesia

AI Maps the Brain’s Hidden Bridge, Revealing Genetic Links to Mental Health

BrainSTEM Atlas Maps Every Cell of the Developing Human Brain

Your Brain Knows a Viral Message Before You Do

Antioxidant Defense System in the Brain Discovered

Subscribe