The region of the brain responsible for social memory, which allows animals to recognise members of the same species, has…
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Memory is an essential part of our existence. Who we are, what we know and what we think can all be derived from our ability to remember. How reliable, though, are our memories? A study, published in the…
I’m not old by any means, but I’ve become a little more forgetful lately. This morning I poured myself a thermos of coffee and left for lab, abandoning it on the kitchen counter. I nearly forgot about…
Psychologists have found that memories of childhood experiences usually fade at the age of seven. This is often referred…
Snails, like all animals, need to remember – what is good or bad to eat, what might be trying to eat them, and who they recently mated with. All of these things can prove extremely important in the fight…
“Time is the thief of memory,” wrote Stephen King in one of his many books. For some people, however, that is not true. They are gifted with what scientists call highly superior autobiographical memory…
Sleep helps lock in visual learning, according to new research from Brown University. The study observed the brain activity…
Bad experiences may enhance memory formation about places, according to scientists from the University of Queensland. The…
Certain types of long term memories can be “rewritten” without drugs or surgery, according to a new study that experts say offers hope for sufferers of post traumatic stress disorder. The study, conducted…
Memories, we know, are fallible, and in the case of acts such as this week’s horrific bombings in Boston, this presents particular problems. How can those charged with gathering eyewitness accounts – and…
Objective details given by eyewitness testimony are less likely to be distorted than subjective details, a new study has…
It may seem somewhat intuitive, but learning through observation is one of the most potent ways humans learn a new skill. We see someone moving in a certain way and we copy it. But what happens when the…
Honeybees may have an advantage over other pollinators – caffeine improves performance. The findings, from Newcastle University…
If you could erase your memories, which ones would you choose? As a neuroscientist, one of my raisons d’etre is to achieve, in a way, some form of memory erasure, especially for individuals that suffer…
Chatty updates on Facebook are easier to remember than carefully-worded sentences. Researchers from the University of Warwick…
Have you ever experienced a sudden feeling of familiarity while in a completely new place? Or the feeling you’ve had the exact same conversation with someone before? This feeling of familiarity is, of…
The human brain can only process four chunks of information before confusion sets in. Results of a new analysis contradict…
The brain encodes short-term visual memory with in-sync electrical neural oscillations. Neuroscientists have observed how…
Healthy young adults could boost their cognitive function and working memory by increasing their intake of omega-3 fatty…
The formation of memories may be found in the spatial and temporal relationship between molecules, and when they are active…
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