A 2023 study in Nature Reviews Psychology found that what they call “offline waking rest” is critical to deep thinking, ...

To figure out if there’s a grain of truth to all these anecdotes, a team of German scientists at the Hamburg University, led ...

An interaction between two proteins points to a molecular basis for memory. But how do memories last when the molecules that ...

The brain isn't a computer—it's a dynamic, adaptable system shaped by evolution. It's emotional, contextual, and designed for ...

Researchers from Sweden have discovered that the human brain continues to grow new cells in the memory region—called the hippocampus—even into old age. Using advanced tools to examine brain samples ...

Mice taught to link smells with tastes, and later fear, revealed how the amygdala teams up with cortical regions to let the ...

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Brain-to-brain verbal communication in humans was first accomplished in 2014 when brain-computer interfaces helped transmit a ...

The cerebrum, especially the cerebral cortex, has long been thought to be the important part of our brain. However, the cerbrum contains less than 20 percent of the neurons in our brain. Eighty ...