Using a mathematical model, scientists explored how the human brain might represent information about physical spaces and ...

René Descartes said the only thing we can be certain about is that we think. But what is the nature of thoughts? Philosophers ...

Secondary psychosis caused by a lesion was mapped to the hippocampus, with a peak in the posterior subiculum and was consistent across symptoms.

A study of young adults in Spain found that those who engage in moderate to vigorous physical activity tend to have larger ...

in a region of the brain called the hippocampus (located within the medial temporal lobe) might help mice to navigate space as well as remember or imagine movement. However, whether similar ...

New research reveals that Type 2 diabetes may impair the brain’s reward and memory processing in ways that mirror early ...

Sleep reorganizes neural patterns in a way that helps memories take hold and prepares the brain for new information.

The Victorian palaeontologist Richard Owen incorrectly argued that the human brain was the only brain to contain a small area ...

New research on the hippocampus, a brain area essential for memory, suggests that new rules of synaptic plasticity best explain how brain activity continually reshapes the way memories are recorded in ...

“We found that in the early stages of sleep, rats’ brain activity reflected the memories they had just formed. Over time, this activity gradually transformed, preparing the brain to recall the learned ...