A recent study in rats suggests that during the rapid eye movement (REM) phase of sleep, the brain uses repeating chains of rapid electrical waves to organize and replay memories in a highly specific ...

Why do we remember some things better in the morning and others at night? A new study in mice suggests the answer may lie in the wiring itself. Researchers at the University of Manchester have shown ...

Researchers from Monash University, in collaboration with the European Biostasis Foundation and Apex Neuroscience, have revealed that although most neuroscientists agree that long-term memories depend ...

Researchers have long wished to understand the connection between sleep and memory, especially how the brain encodes long-term memories during slow-wave sleep (while discarding others), or the deep ...

Researchers from Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience have discovered a new pathway to forming long-term memories in the brain. Their work suggests that long-term memory can form ...

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 ...

Every moment the world might surprise you, your brain is quietly preparing. A landmark study published today in Nature Neuroscience provides the first direct evidence from living human brains that the ...