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First and foremost, we breathe in order to absorb oxygen - but this vital rhythm could also have other functions. Over the ...

Brainwave recordings revealed that successful remembering involved reduced alpha and beta activity alongside the reactivation ...

Humans and most other animals are known to be strongly driven by expected rewards or adverse consequences. The process of ...

The scientific study of both internal mental processes and observable behavior is known as psychology. It explains activities ...

Memory can be broken down into multiple types, including long-term memory, short-term memory, explicit and implicit memory, and working memory. Memory is a process in your brain that enables you to ...

A new study shows that precisely manipulating brain activity during sleep can help mice retain memories that would normally fade, offering a potential pathway for treating memory loss conditions.

A good understanding of eyewitness memory is invaluable in criminal investigation. However, we frequently see eyewitness principles operating in other fields in which accurate observation is important ...

AI’s scale exposes how small our gains really are. The hardest part might be seeing our limits in the mirror AI holds up.