Tones, oddball sounds and words can spark brain cell responses, hinting at nuanced processing without consciousness.

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A new study uses optogenetics to induce localized sleep in awake mice, reversing memory loss from sleep deprivation.

For almost a century, psychologists and neuroscientists have been trying to understand how humans memorize different types of information, ranging from knowledge or facts to the recollection of ...

Leo Chenyang Lin was on a trip to New Hampshire two years ago when he stopped to watch a group of squirrels darting through the trees. That “playful moment” stuck with him. By the end of that day, he ...

Research increasingly suggests that smell could play a role in memory retention—and you may be able to leverage the sense to ...

Researchers have discovered a new way that brain plasticity is controlled in early life, offering insight into the ...

Since time immemorial, the sentient self-reflective universal human condition has asked two questions: Who are we, and what are we? These two questions were then divided into two categories: the ...

You can use up all the storage on your phone or max out your computer's drive, but can you use up all the memory space in your brain? Despite how you might feel before an exam or after a sleepless ...