Ordinary human cells, not just neurons, respond more strongly to memory signals when they arrive in spaced bursts rather than ...

Brain study reveals memories stick when learning triggers a brief “energy emergency” in glucose-sensing neurons.

A study published in March in the journal Nature shows that, at least in flies, sugar plays a very important role in memory.

It is now understood that the hippocampus is closely linked to learning and memory (Doidge, 2015; Suzuki, 2015). However, this was not always the case. One prominent experiment investigating memory, ...

Letting an AI assistant handle the hard parts of thinking feels efficient in the moment, but a growing body of cognitive science research suggests that convenience comes at a measurable cost. When ...

Researchers at Leipzig University have gained important insights into learning mechanisms in the brain of the fruit fly ...

A Swiss research team has restored learning and memory in aging mice by briefly switching on three “reprogramming” genes inside the exact neurons that store a memory. The work comes from EPFL in ...

One of sleep’s key functions is to stabilize and integrate new memories into our brain’s long-term memory systems, a process known as "consolidation." This idea is now widely accepted, though it ...