Letting an AI assistant handle the hard parts of thinking feels efficient in the moment, but a growing body of cognitive ...

A University of Iowa-led research team has documented in humans that physical exercise sparks an increase in brain waves ...

BDNF is protective for the brain and plays a crucial role in learning and memory. Researchers have found that exercise boosts BDNF levels. The post How does exercise boost learning and memory? The ...

A single exercise session increased electrical activity in a brain region tied to learning and memory, a first-of-its-kind ...

A study in mice concluded that memory problems associated with age may be driven by our gut microbiome and that the vagus nerve may be key to reversing it.

The hippocampus serves as the primary learning and memory center of the brain, but this is not where our memories are held. Rather, memory traces or engrams are represented by the connections between ...

Complex protein interactions at synapses are essential for memory formation in our brains, but the mechanisms behind these processes remain poorly understood. Now, researchers have developed a ...

Distinguished Professor Kaoru Inokuchi and Specially Appointed Assistant Professor Khaled Ghandour explain the rationale, goals, and main findings of this research, which focuses on the importance of ...

Researchers at Google have developed a new AI paradigm aimed at solving one of the biggest limitations in today’s large language models: their inability to learn or update their knowledge after ...

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 memory, ...