There isn’t a hard line differentiating a false memory and simply misremembering where you put your keys. But, in general, ...

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Researchers identified a chaperone protein, Funes, that triggers controlled amyloid formation in fruit fly neurons to ...

You can use up all the storage on your phone or max out your computer's drive, but can you use up all the memory space in your brain? Despite how you might feel before an exam or after a sleepless ...

A preclinical study published in Nature has found evidence that the hippocampus, the brain region that stores memory, also ...

How the human brain organizes its visual memories through precise neural timing has been discovered. Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC; CA, USA) have made a significant ...

Most people are interested in memory, especially if they are reminiscing about the past or if they know someone suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. But most have not really thought about how you would ...

How do we hear, and how does hearing affect how we play music? These questions are central to the work of Nikolas Alejandro ...

A plume of red, a searing pain and the sounds of summer—these are fragments of my earliest memory, when I stepped on a glass shard in a Toronto splash park at six or seven years old. I don’t remember ...

Your memory relies on reusing, overlapping and adapting rather than on a fixed number of storage spots. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

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