In a discovery that could reshape how we think about memory, researchers at Flinders University have found that forgetting is ...

A baby zebrafish is just half the size of a pea. A recent look inside its transparent brain, however, offers clues to the far bigger mystery of how we remember—and how we forget. In an experiment that ...

Revue des études slaves, Vol. 86, No. 1/2, VILLES POSTSOCIALISTES ENTRE RUPTURE ÉVOLUTION ET NOSTALGIE (2015), pp. 157-169 (15 pages) This essay is not about Kafka's Prague - a veritable industry of ...

One of the most actively debated questions about human and non-human culture is this: under what circumstances might we expect culture, in particular the ability to learn from one another, to be ...

Understanding how brains actively erase memories may open new understanding of memory loss and aging, and open the possibility of new treatments for neurodegenerative disease. The fragrance of hot ...

In mice, cells in the hypothalamus clear out old memories while the animals sleep. By Knvul Sheikh One afternoon in April 1929, a journalist from a Moscow newspaper turned up in Alexander Luria’s ...

Neuroscientist and novelist Genova (Still Alice) delivers a solid primer on the way memory works and fails to work. She proposes that “once we understand memory and become familiar with how it ...

Earlier this year, 20-year-old Vishvaa Rajakumar memorized 80 random numbers in 13.5 seconds—roughly six numbers per second. This feat helped him win the Memory League World Championship, a tournament ...