Memory doesn’t live only in the brain. Scientists are uncovering signs that cells throughout the body can remember, too. These findings are starting to challenge old ideas about how and where memory ...

As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people’s powers of recollection, I’m often asked how memory works – and what we can do to use it more effectively. Happily, ...

A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in retrieving different types of information, the findings could redefine how memory ...

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, perception, memory, language, and thought have been mapped onto distinct brain ...

This Communications Biology study used intracranial EEG in 22 epilepsy patients to map how the human brain processes new ...

Since then, many more researchers have reported evidence for neurons changing how they respond to certain stimuli or ...

Our memories of past events are typically not isolated, but they are linked to other related memories. This ability to ...