As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people's powers of recollection, I'm often asked how memory works—and what we can do to use it more effectively. Happily, ...

Practice may do more than make perfect. Researchers found that extensive training physically reorganizes the brain, allowing ...

A new study suggests that learning and remembering speech relies more on how the brain processes sounds and sensations than on the areas that control mouth and face movements. The discovery could ...

The ‘doorway effect’ suggests that when information is removed from working memory, it immediately seems to leave ...

A human trial shows that increasing histaminergic signaling may sharpen memory retrieval, support adaptive decision-making, and stabilize learning from aversive experiences, revealing a neglected ...

In a new study published in Neuron titled, “Working memory readout varies with frontal theta rhythms,” researchers from the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at Massachusetts Institute of ...

Mostly that’s because we convinced ourselves that it’s more efficient to take notes on our laptops or phones. A keyboard is certainly a faster way to capture thoughts. The problem is, it’s a lot less ...

Modern lifestyles often demand long working hours, constant connectivity, and the ability to juggle multiple responsibilities ...

Researchers have crossed a threshold that once belonged squarely to science fiction: they have built working models of brains, both in silicon and in living tissue, that can learn, adapt, and even ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has seen a huge surge within just a few years. Apps like Microsoft Copilot promise to help you brainstorm and plan; ChatGPT offers help with homework and professional work ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the big picture of artificial intelligence. The brain is unimaginably complex. Google and Harvard recently announced ...