Age-related memory decline and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's are often thought of as irreversible. But the brain is not static; neurons continually adjust the strength of their ...

A newly identified protein may hold the key to rejuvenating aging brain cells. Researchers found that boosting DMTF1 can ...

Picture a star-shaped cell in the brain, stretching its spindly arms out to cradle the neurons around it. That's an astrocyte ...

New research suggests that the natural rhythm of breathing plays an important role in organizing the brain activity required for human memory. The study indicates that successful memory retrieval is ...

How motivation shapes memory formation While past studies have shown that motivation can enhance learning, the authors explain that not all motivation works the same way. Instead, different ...

Researchers at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) School of Engineering have developed a novel reinforcement learning–based generative model to predict neural signals, creating ...

Listen to the first notes of an old, beloved song. Can you name that tune? If you can, congratulations -- it's a triumph of your associative memory, in which one piece of information (the first few ...

In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, researchers used machine learning to discover multiple new classes of ...

“When learning your first language or a second language, you are using the hippocampus, which is responsible for learning and ...

A team at the University of California, San Diego has redesigned how RRAM operates in an effort to accelerate the execution ...