Scanning the brains of sleeping toddlers, researchers found the hippocampus is activated as memories for new words are formed. The findings suggest the hippocampus plays an important role in the formation of new word memories.
A new, freely available brain atlas reveals how brain metabolism changes throughout the life of mice.
The hippocampus brings pieces of memories together over time and forms them into connective, narrative memories.
The way in which an infant visually examines an object may predict a later autism diagnosis, researchers say. Unusual visual inspection of items at 9 months was a strong predictor of an ASD diagnosis later in childhood.
Squirrels have four main personality traits, researchers report. Understanding how an animal's personality influences use of space may be important for wildlife conservation.
The cognitive map allows people to compute on the fly with limited information to solve abstract problems.
Domestic cats choose not a contrafreeload, a behavior where most animals prefer to work for their food.
Earworms, those songs that get stuck in your head, may help strengthen memories of music and life events, a new study reports.
Study reveals an association between traffic-related air pollution and an increased risk of age-related Alzheimer's disease.
Using rhesus macaques, researchers have developed a new model of early-stage Alzheimer's disease.
Proactive control is not impaired in those on the autism spectrum. Instead, those with ASD implement proactive control in a unique manner.
Objective and subjective memories function independently and involve different areas of the brain. People who make decisions based on subjective memory rely more on how they feel about the memory than on the accuracy of the details.
