memory

UCI-led team is first to discover how the brain creates memories of delicious smells

New tool will help researchers study how accurately we construct mental representations of visual experiences

Participants had the poorest recall when memories of one event become entwined with memories of a similar experience

Researchers found no impact on the users' performance on decision-making tests but did find some memory impairments

International collaboration maps critical measurements of activity in vivo to more than 120 types of neurons from the brain region responsible for autobiographic memory

Research assesses how effective caffeine is in counteracting the negative effects of sleep deprivation on cognition, showing that it only gets you so far

Scientists from Japan employ a novel two-step method of labeling neurotransmitter receptor proteins to track their localization efficiently

Recent research is the first to directly link the testing effect to an eyewitness situation

Based on the proposed processing technique for in situ cryo-electron tomography, researchers are the first to observe individual GABAA receptors and their organization on the synaptic membrane

Columbia-led findings in mice bolster efforts to map circuitry of brain's memory center; point to new areas of research into panic and post-traumatic stress disorders