Scientists have uncovered a stepwise system that guides how the brain sorts and stabilizes lasting memories. By tracking ...

Want to learn more quickly, and retain more of what you learn? Neuroscience says boosting your memory is relatively easy.

As time passes, the visual information that illustrates our memories fades away, Boston College researchers report Like old photographs, memories fade in quality over time – a surprising finding for a ...

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On May 26, 2011, neuroscientist Steve Ramirez, then a Ph.D. student at MIT, and his colleague, the late Xu Liu, placed a mouse into a box where it had never had any negative experiences and then ...