Your memory relies on reusing, overlapping and adapting rather than on a fixed number of storage spots.

All memory storage devices, from your brain to the RAM in your computer, store information by changing their physical qualities. Over 130 years ago, pioneering neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal ...

Memory is foundational to our human experience. By tracking and storing our experiences, it helps us navigate the world and ...

Working memory is the information we need to access to complete the tasks we’re engaged in right now, and scientists think it ...

An international research team has uncovered new insights into healthy brain aging. The researchers found that aging leads to the accumulation of defective energy molecules in the brains of aged mice, ...

Problems in a shared brain "hub" might help explain why those symptoms can surface together.

Conceptual illustration of how slow fluctuations in brain histamine neuron activity may gate memory access from moment to moment. After mice learn that a sound cue predicts a sugar-water reward, the ...

Fear is often thought of as a negative emotion but is actually a natural protective response to perceived threats or danger. It helps us survive. When we experience a situation that causes fear, it ...