Neuroscientists are tracking the brain activity that underlies a cognitive breakthrough and unraveling how it might boost ...

A massive international brain study has revealed that memory decline with age isn’t driven by a single brain region or gene, ...

Scientists have found that blocking microglia (specialist immune cells in the brain) prevents infant forgetting ("infantile ...

Researchers have a new hypothesis for how brain cells called astrocytes might contribute to memory storage in the brain. Their model, known as dense associative memory, would help explain the brain's ...

The world’s most powerful supercomputers can now run simulations of billions of neurons, and researchers hope such models ...

A neuroscientist survey shows that 40 percent think it might be possible to preserve a human brain, potentially well enough ...

A landmark international study that pooled brain scans and memory tests from thousands of adults has shed new light on how ...

Babies of every species from mouse to human rapidly forget things that happen to them—an effect called infantile amnesia. A ...

Babies of every species from mouse to human rapidly forget things that happen to them-an effect called infantile amnesia.

Recently, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang, whose company builds the chips powering today’s most advanced artificial intelligence systems, remarked: “The thing that’s really, really quite amazing is the ...

Consciousness researchers studying “islands of awareness” have found that disconnected brains likely sink into a strange form ...