Neurodegenerative disease profoundly affects structures and pathways responsible for memory, cognition, and higher-order ...

A. Overview of hippocampal dynamics during movie watching. FMRI data from the hippocampus were measured at the voxel level, and low-dimensional subspaces for two types of novelty and memorability were ...

Learning isn’t just something that happens in your mind — it physically changes your brain. This video explains how neuroplasticity allows neurons to form stronger connections every time you practice ...

In early Alzheimer’s disease, people have trouble remembering what they did days, or even hours, prior. Is this because they lose the ability to store new memories, or are memories formed, but not ...

One way to think about consciousness is as a surfer on a moonless, cloudy night, skimming over the surface of a rough ocean. The surfer thinks she’s in complete control of her direction. But she’s ...

Sometimes, we search for information in long-term memory and find it—a name, a movie title, or a vivid example to support a general conclusion. Other times, we're unable to recall what we believe we ...

Seep deprivation impairs social memory by disrupting oxytocin signaling in the hippocampus and prelimbic cortex.