For roughly 40 years, the working assumption in neuroscience went something like this: the hippocampus, the brain’s primary ...
Our memories of past events are typically not isolated, but they are linked to other related memories. This ability to ...
When you brace your abs before lifting something heavy or hold a plank until your muscles shake, the effort does not stay in ...
The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's brain, and by some measures the most important. In humans in particular, it's where most things happen-like perception, thinking, memory storage ...
Schematic model showing how memory is consolidated in the prefrontal cortex and how circuitry through the amygdala shifts as hippocampal engram cells become silent and cortical engrams become active.
"Complex processes are going on in the brain when we sleep," says Dr Karolina ArmonaitÄ—, a neuroscientist from Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. According to her, a more precise ...
A new study successfully used an aerosol jet printer to create artificial neurons with a partially decomposed polymer ...