Letting an AI assistant handle the hard parts of thinking feels efficient in the moment, but a growing body of cognitive ...

Add Silicon Canals to your Google News feed. Most people think a good memory means remembering what happened at breakfast, where they left their keys, or the name of someone they met at a party last ...

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

The visceral substrate of selfhood is not an add-on to cognitive self-awareness; in many frameworks, it is its foundation. Neuroimaging shows the anterior insula co-activating with the medial ...

Background Social memory-the ability to recognize familiar individuals and distinguish them from strangers-is fundamental to social cognition. Deficits in social memory are hallmarks of multiple ...

Researchers use MEG imaging to show that the brain reactivates "forgotten" memories, but they only reach consciousness if they pulse at a specific rhythm.

A study in mice concluded that memory problems associated with age may be driven by our gut microbiome and that the vagus ...

One of the most widely accepted models for how cells remember their identity may be incorrect. This is shown in a new study ...

Researchers have used brain imaging to show how memories can be reactivated in the brain without them reaching conscious awareness, showing that these memories persist even when we think they have ...

A new study shows that 20 minutes of cardio can trigger memory-linked brain waves in the hippocampus, offering the first direct evidence of this effect in humans.

Memory is not a recording device. It doesn't play back events like a video camera would. Instead, it's a remarkably active, ...