Birdwatching turns out to be a particularly effective activity for engaging multiple mental processes at once. Identifying species requires observers to notice subtle differences in color, shape, ...

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An international team of physicists has uncovered a subtle but important twist in how “memory” works in quantum systems.

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Oxytocin, a hormone renowned for fostering emotional, also plays a pivotal role in cognitive functions such as learning and memory.

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Exponential increases in data and a mix of performance requirements are driving a top-to-bottom rethinking of what works best ...

Adults whose brains still have strong neuron production seem to have better memory and cognitive function than do those in whom the ability wanes, finds a study published today in Nature. The authors ...

An international team led by Jaime de Juan-Sanz at the Paris Brain Institute has shown that slightly increasing the metabolic capacity of neurons can enhance long-term memory in both fruit flies and ...

Cocaine addiction isn’t simply a failure of willpower — it’s the result of lasting biological changes in the brain.

American football is a high-octane contact sport in which repetitive head impacts (RHI) are a common sight. Researchers ...

The results include a comparison between two different basis functions for temporal selectivity and how these generate different predictions for the dynamics of neural populations. The conclusions are ...