The ability to learn and to establish new memories is fundamental to our lives; we rely on our memories to do the simplest of things - remember who we are, recognise the words we read and the sounds ...

Scientists at Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience discovered a parallel pathway for forming long-term memories that bypasses short-term memory. Using optogenetics, they blocked short-term ...

It may be hard to imagine when they’re so tiny, but little ones’ brains are busy making memories all the time. In fact, they have been since before birth, according to Dr Jane Gilmour, a consultant ...

Large language models have transformed how users interact with AI — from companions and customer service bots to virtual assistants. Yet most of these interactions remain transactional, limited to ...