Neuroscientists are uncovering the hidden architecture of memory, revealing how the prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, and other brain regions work together to store our life stories. From encoding vivid ...

As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people's powers of recollection, I'm often asked how ...

Healthy habits, including exercise, a good diet and getting enough sleep, can pay big dividends on improving memory function ...

Rather than holding information in specific areas of the brain, our memories are represented by the connections between neurons, called synapses. According to a recent study from the Salk Institute in ...

Researchers have long wished to understand the connection between sleep and memory, especially how the brain encodes long-term memories during slow-wave sleep (while discarding others), or the deep ...

As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people’s powers of recollection, I’m often asked how memory works – and what we can do to use it more effectively. Happily, ...