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 ...

Imagine you are a security guard in one of those casino heist movies where your ability to recognize an emerging crime will ...

New research shows that the brain’s ability to detect subtle visual changes—like spotting an anomaly on a security ...

Scientists at Skoltech developed a new mathematical model of memory that explores how information is encoded and stored. Their analysis suggests that memory works best in a seven-dimensional ...

Spatial memory — the ability to recall “where” — is one of the first cognitive skills to decline in aging and a hallmark of dementia.

Recent work has revealed some of the many crucial functions of astrocytes, brain cells that were once thought to play primarily supportive roles for neurons. Astrocytes do handle debris around neurons ...

A brain exercise a day might keep you current—it might even revive your brain chemistry. In a landmark clinical trial led by ...

As recent artificial intelligence (AI) models' capacity to understand and process long, complex sentences grows, the ...

New research reveals that exercise counteracts the mood-damaging effects of a Western-style diet through specific gut and ...

The human brain, despite representing only about 2% of total body weight, consumes approximately 20% of the body’s energy resources. This metabolic intensity makes the brain particularly responsive to ...