Ordinary human cells, not just neurons, respond more strongly to memory signals when they arrive in spaced bursts rather than ...

How is it that we all see the world in a similar way? Imagine sitting with a friend in a café, both of you looking at a phone screen displaying a dog running along the beach. Although each of our ...

Researchers at USC have created the first method to noninvasively measure microscopic blood vessel pulses in the human brain.

Groundbreaking research from NYU reveals non-neural human cells can remember chemical signals. This challenges the long-held ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that aging alters not just the size but the shape of the human brain, reshaping regions in ways linked to memory and reasoning decline.

Stanford scientists found that aging disrupts the brain’s internal navigation system in mice, mirroring spatial memory ...

A new study published in Nature Communications provides evidence that the human brain does not simply shrink with age but ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different to our closest relatives. Our ...

Tying “fragile” memories to emotional events could help people remember them better in the future, researchers at Boston University believe. Leo Chenyang Lin was on a trip to New Hampshire two years ...

Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a promising non-invasive neuroimaging technique that works by detecting ...

The human brain shrinks as it ages, affecting the ability to remember — it’s part of life. Yet there are a lucky few, called “SuperAgers,” who possess a brain that fights back. For these people, ...

A century and a half ago, Frederick Engels, in an unpublished 1876 essay titled, The Part Played by Labor in the Transition From Ape to Man (International Publishers 1950), identified the evolution of ...