The human brain is constantly flooded with sights, sounds and sensations, yet only a fraction of those experiences become ...

Put away your phone, picture this, and remember it. The entry to all new learning is like a doorway. Information crosses the threshold ushered by what captures our attention. Our capacities to see, ...

Scientists have long suspected that hormones quietly tune how the brain learns, but the idea of a single, hidden “switch” has usually been more metaphor than map. What is emerging from decades of ...

The black box of the human brain is starting to open. Although animal models are instrumental in shaping our understanding of the mammalian brain, scarce human data is uncovering important ...

The limbic system helps regulate emotional and social processing, as well as learning, motivation, and memory. It consists of structures that lie beneath the outer, wrinkly part of the brain and above ...

Fascinating new findings into how clusters of 'brain stars' retain memories has changed what we know about how they're held in our minds. Baylor College of Medicine researchers have been investigating ...

Has this ever happened to you? You’re having dinner with your family or friends. Suddenly, your beverage gets knocked over, and it spills all over the table, making a mess. Think back to that moment.

Listen to the first notes of an old, beloved song. Can you name that tune? If you can, congratulations — it’s a triumph of your associative memory, in which one piece of information (the first few ...

Sobey identified this supply/power crunch as a strategic entry point for "alternative memories"—technologies like MRAM (magnetoresistive RAM), RRAM (resistive RAM), and phase change memory (PCM) that ...

What’s the Future of Memory and Storage conference? What’s new at FMS 2024? FMS 2024: the Future of Memory and Storage kicks off on August 6 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. It used to be called ...