A new study has revealed that neural inhibition and balanced neural activity in a specific area of the brain is required for ...

A new review explores how episodic memories are formed, stored, and reshaped over time, revealing why our recollections of past events often change.

First and foremost, we breathe in order to absorb oxygen - but this vital rhythm could also have other functions. Over the ...

A study from the University of East Anglia is helping scientists better understand how our brains remember past events—and how those memories can change over time.

Snapchat gave users nine years to accumulate memories, and will now charge them to keep those memories. Behavioral economics reveals why this feels like psychological coercion.

Scientists uncovered a surprising four-layer structure hidden inside the hippocampal CA1 region, one of the brain’s major centers for memory, navigation, and emotion. Using advanced RNA imaging ...

In a new co-authored book, Professor and Chair of Psychology and Neuroscience Elizabeth A. Kensinger points out some surprising facts about how memories work Explaining the science behind memory and ...

We all replay conversations in our heads, but rarely end up making any more sense of them. Here are five reasons why we still ...

Emerging research is looking at the impact AI use has on our brains and whether it is just making us lazy or rewiring our neural pathways. Here's what the studies say.

A recent neuroscience review questions the long-held belief that memories are unchanging records of past events.

Cortisol is the body's main stress hormone. Too much cortisol over time may harm memory and brain health, but the cortisol-dementia link is complex and mostly correlational. Managing stress, sleep, ...