While humans are observing their surroundings, their eyes tend to rapidly shift between different objects, people and details that catch their attention, pausing briefly on each one. In psychology, ...

A team of scientists from the Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research (CNIR) at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has unveiled how the hippocampus orchestrates multiple memory processes, ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers investigated whether post-encoding ripples improve emotional memory through amygdala-hippocampal memory restoration or ...

Humans are a social species. Therefore, human memory formation, as much other cognitive activity, often occurs in social contexts. Yet, scientific memory research has paid limited attention to the ...

Episodic memory encoding refers to the process by which experiences are transformed into stable neural representations that can later be recalled as events situated in time and place. In healthy ...

A. Overview of hippocampal dynamics during movie watching. FMRI data from the hippocampus were measured at the voxel level, and low-dimensional subspaces for two types of novelty and memorability were ...

People who cut their sleep short are quietly degrading the brain circuit responsible for recognizing familiar faces and recalling names, according to converging animal and human research that traces ...

Pitolisant, a histamine H3 receptor inverse agonist, improved recognition memory, working memory performance, and ...

Innovative brain-wide mapping study shows that 'engrams,' the ensemble of neurons encoding a memory, is widely distributed including among regions not previously recognized. A new study by scientists ...

Lapses in memory are a normal part of ageing but can also be signs of dementia. Here’s how to distinguish between typical ...