Our episodic memory – the ability to recall past events and experiences – is known to decline as we age. Exactly how and why ...

A surprising new brain study suggests that remembering life events and recalling facts may rely on the same neural machinery.

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, ...

There’s a lot to love about brains. They are arguably the most complex organ in the entire human body. 86 billion neurons send electrical and chemical signals back and forth within your brain to ...

Stressful study sessions help us pass exams, but curiosity promotes long-term understanding and information retention. In A ...

Traditionally, explicit long-term memory (the intentional, conscious recollection of things and experiences) is divided into ...

For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the ...

Brain fog, or limited cognitive function, may be caused by stress, poor sleep, and other factors. Here are some tips to manage mental fatigue.

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 ...

There isn’t a hard line differentiating a false memory and simply misremembering where you put your keys. But, in general, ...

Cancer and Alzheimer's disease are two of the most feared diagnoses in medicine, but they rarely strike the same person.