You can never forget your first move-in day but how does your brain write these experiences into memory? Psychology professor ...

Nootropics are a broad group of natural and lab-made substances that work by influencing how brain cells use energy and function. Examples include Ginkgo biloba, citicoline and caffeine. They are most ...

For decades, scientists have mapped attention, memory, language, and reasoning to separate brain networks — yet one big mystery remained: why does the mind feel like a single, unified system?

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, ...

A decades-long collaboration between two scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is reshaping ...

A new study suggests that learning and remembering speech relies more on how the brain processes sounds and sensations than on the areas that control mouth and face movements. The discovery could ...

Research has shown that a good night's sleep has many benefits, including memory consolidation. How sleep enables the brain ...

In a new study published in Neuron titled, “Working memory readout varies with frontal theta rhythms,” researchers from the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at Massachusetts Institute of ...

One of the greatest benefits of exercise: it makes your brain work better! Here's how.

You know that feeling when you walk into a room and immediately forget why you came in? Maybe you were there to fetch your keys. On your way to the room, you were thinking about grabbing your keys.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the big picture of artificial intelligence. The brain is unimaginably complex. Google and Harvard recently announced ...