Scientists have identified a way in which the brain’s ability to process information diminishes with age, and shown that this break down contributes to the decreased ability to form memories that is ...

A team of researchers has demonstrated that the key to understanding working memory relies not only on what one is storing in memory, but also why. This is the 'working' part of working memory, which ...

When you slip into sleep, it's easy to imagine that your brain shuts down, but University of Michigan research suggests that groups of neurons activated during prior learning keep humming, tattooing ...

APOE4, the strongest genetic risk factor for sporadic Alzheimer’s disease, has been tied to slightly better memory in the young. Now, researchers led by Sebastian Crutch and Jonathan Schott, ...