Making inferences from partial information constitutes a critical aspect of cognition. During visual perception, pattern completion enables recognition of poorly visible or occluded objects. We ...

Working with rats, neuroscientists at Johns Hopkins University have pinpointed a mechanism in the brain responsible for a common type of age-related memory loss. The work, published today in Current ...

The contribution of adult-born neurons in the hippocampal dentate gyrus to memory functions is much debated. Tonegawa and colleagues now show that adult-born granule cells switch their roles in ...