Talking to oneself is a trait which feels inherently human. Our inner monologs help us organize our thoughts, make decisions, ...

A new study finds the hippocampus reorganizes memories to predict rewards. This discovery explains how the brain learns and why Alzheimer's affects decision-making.

Talking to yourself feels deeply human. Inner speech helps you plan, reflect, and solve problems without saying a word.

Stressful study sessions help us pass exams, but curiosity promotes long-term understanding and information retention. In A ...

Researchers found that older adults learned a memory task best after practicing multiple related tasks, suggesting that diverse cognitive training supports mental sharpness as we age. When Ilber ...

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 ...

Researchers are testing a new approach to repair early memory loss by protecting brain connections affected in Alzheimer’s ...

An innovative and scalable proximity labelling method profiled proteins present in the Caenorhabditis elegans brain during learning, identifying known regulators as well as novel biological pathways.