These so-called concept neurons have so far only been found in humans, and here only in the medial temporal lobe, which is ...

A study by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine may change the way we understand memory. Until now, memories have been explained by the activity of neurons that respond to learning events and ...

So they placed the mice in a new environment, where instead of a shock they had the opportunity to interact with female mice. As they did so, the researchers activated their fear memory-storing ...

Stress makes mice form big bundles of neurons in the brain that disrupt memory formation, making them fearful of harmless situations 1 — which might help to explain why stressed people often ...

New brain scans have shown that neurons in several regions of the brain become significantly more active across birth.

If you are ever able to upload your memory to the cloud, there will have to be proven science that defines the physical basis ...

More evidence is the only way to end the debate once and for all. Watanabe and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins are now ...

"Learning and memory are generally associated with brains and brain cells alone, but our study shows that other cells in the ...

A short-term memory circuit, for example, will remain in a single preferred state until a new stimulus comes along, causing ...

Inside the hippocampus, several types of neurons are involved in memory processing. Granule cells, for instance, are ...