Our thoughts are specified by our knowledge and plans, yet our cognition can also be fast and flexible in handling new ...

In the brain, neuronal ensembles that bear the memory of an experience existed beforehand, suggesting a paradox that we already know what we are about to know. New research on the integration of ...

Schematic model showing how memory is consolidated in the prefrontal cortex and how circuitry through the amygdala shifts as hippocampal engram cells become silent and cortical engrams become active.

Macaques are often studied because their brains share many similarities with human brains. However, this study revealed an ...

Still, even that explanation isn’t enough when it comes to the heartbreaking case of Andrew Meismer, 16, who was fatally ...

The greatest enemy of anyone below 25 is the prefrontal cortex. Indeed, it is the devil on your shoulder that whispers in your ear, telling you to smoke that weed the night before your economics ...