“If you really want to understand the brain, you have to take the top off and look inside,” says Roger Nicoll, MD. But don’t flip your wig just yet -- Nicoll's UCSF research team is learning about the ...

Working memory is what allows humans to juggle different pieces of information in short-term scenarios, like making a mental grocery list and then going shopping or remembering and then dialing a ...

In recent decades, a convergence of cognitive psychology and educational research has provided compelling evidence for the adoption of evidence-based learning strategies aimed at enhancing memory ...

For decades, dopamine has been celebrated in neuroscience as the quintessential "reward molecule"—a chemical herald 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 ...

As researchers try to build more complex computers that get closer to emulating the way the human brain works, one of the areas of focus is memory. Existing chips, hard disks and tape drives are great ...

With transistors and logic gates as our basic building blocks, we can begin to construct the actual circuits that make up computer memory. One of the simplest memory circuits is the AND gate, which ...