New research suggests loneliness affects older adults' baseline memory performance but may not directly accelerate cognitive ...

New research shows that sleep loss alters specific memory circuits, but also hints that a familiar compound may help restore them in unexpected ways. Researchers at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine ...

Researchers have investigated how sugar affects the brain’s ability to store memories.

You're in the kitchen, baking a cake, and the recipe calls for two cups of sugar. By the time you choose between the brown ...

The UCLA Brain Research Institute hosted the annual Southern California Learning and Memory Symposium on March 3. Participants and attendees gathered in the Neuroscience Research Building for a day of ...

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

Memory representations are fundamental to human cognition, yet their integrity can be compromised with advancing age. Recent research has elucidated complex molecular and circuit-level mechanisms ...

A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks. Researchers expected clear differences but instead found strong overlap ...

Recognition memory research encompasses a diverse range of models and decision processes that characterise how individuals differentiate between previously encountered stimuli and novel items. At the ...