Researchers at the University of Southern California have made a significant breakthrough in understanding how the human ...

A new study shows that when you finish your spouse's sentences or answer a fill-in-the-blank question, you're engaging the brain's relay station for memories, an area that until now was largely ...

Summary: Researchers have identified ripple-type brain waves as key to how humans segment and store memories. By recording ...

A new study reveals that neurons in the brain’s memory center, the hippocampus, continue to form well into late adulthood. A ...

Like many parts of the brain’s limbic system, the hippocampus is involved in memory, learning, and emotion. Its largest job is to hold short-term memories and transfer them to long-term storage ...

This new neuron growth, or "neurogenesis," takes place in the hippocampus, a critical part of the brain involved in learning ... Paterlini said it's too soon to draw conclusions about the disparity ...

To pinpoint cell activity in a subregion of the hippocampus called the dentate gyrus ... allowing researchers to draw high-confidence conclusions from sparse and precious brain samples. Still, not all ...

Scientists agree that Alzheimer’s disease ravages the hippocampus, making the volume of this small brain region a key marker for AD clinical trials. But as to precisely where the hippocampus starts ...

It is now understood that the hippocampus is closely linked to learning and memory (Doidge, 2015; Suzuki, 2015). However, this was not always the case. One prominent experiment investigating ...

Brain’s hippocampus helps fill in the blanks of language Date: September 21, 2016 Source: University of California, Berkeley Summary: A new study shows that when you finish your spouse's ...

A new study shows that when you finish your spouse's sentences or answer a fill-in-the-blank question, you're engaging the brain's relay station for memories, an area that until now was largely ...