As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people's powers of recollection, I'm often asked how ...

Healthy habits, including exercise, a good diet and getting enough sleep, can pay big dividends on improving memory function ...

You probably cannot remember every museum you visited on your last holiday. But you likely remember exactly what you ate.

Researchers have long wished to understand the connection between sleep and memory, especially how the brain encodes long-term memories during slow-wave sleep (while discarding others), or the deep ...

Rather than holding information in specific areas of the brain, our memories are represented by the connections between neurons, called synapses. According to a recent study from the Salk Institute in ...