Research undertaken over the last century has revealed that sleep plays a role in the mechanisms directing normal cognitive and developmental processes, including the consolidation of memories. This ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While it's long been suspected that our brains consolidate each day's events as we sleep, a new study is the first to show that ...

Researchers have found that a natural aging-related molecule can repair key memory processes affected by Alzheimer’s disease.

Working memory is a critical cognitive system that temporarily maintains and manipulates information for complex tasks such as reasoning, learning, and decision-making. It functions as an interface ...

Recognition memory research encompasses a diverse range of models and decision processes that characterise how individuals differentiate between previously encountered stimuli and novel items. At the ...

The average human brain weighs about 3 pounds and contains 80 to 100 billion neurons, which are the cells that store information. But how do these cells store information? How do we retrieve that ...

A new brain imaging study shows that the hippocampus (green) is the brain's master storyteller, weaving memories of past events into a coherent narrative. Image: Brendan Cohn-Sheehy, Center for ...

Researchers are testing a new approach to repair early memory loss by protecting brain connections affected in Alzheimer’s ...