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You may not be able to remember the details of blowing out your candles at your first birthday party, but that doesn’t mean you lacked the ability to store that event in your memory bank. In fact, a ...

New multidisciplinary research led by Prof. Tomás Ryan from Trinity College Dublin shows that the brain forms memories of cold experiences and uses them to control our metabolism. This study is the ...

The hippocampus serves as the primary learning and memory center of the brain, but this is not where our memories are held. Rather, memory traces or engrams are represented by the connections between ...

Research has revealed fascinating insights into how our brains create and maintain memories. According to neuroscientists, memory formation depends on specific patterns of neuronal activity in the ...

Why some memories persist while others vanish has fascinated scientists for more than a century. A preclinical study by Stowers Institute scientists has now identified the mechanism that makes a ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Scientists have made a breakthrough in our understanding of how memories form in the brain and how this process may be ...

Researchers have discovered a new type of neuron that plays a fundamental role in recognition memory -- how the brain registers the difference between new and familiar objects and forms long-term ...

Our attention spans are shorter and we get bored easily. Without time to contemplate and reflect on past events, our ability to form long-term memories is impaired and we end up floating in a cyber ...