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 ...

If you're the owner of a dog, you've probably often wondered what they're thinking. Our furry friends can communicate how they're feeling in their own unique way, but it's impossible to suss out ...

Inflammation in the brain is rarely seen as a good thing; research has linked it to diseases including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and neuropsychiatric symptoms such as anxiety. But a new study from ...

Long-term memory has an unlimited capacity and can hold information for a long time. Once information is encoded into the short-term memory, it can be transferred to the long-term memory to be stored.

People may misremember events, often within seconds, and reshape memories to fit their expectations, according to a new study that sheds more light on such illusions in short-term memory. Previous ...

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 ...