Every thought, memory, and feeling we experience depends on trillions of tiny connection points in the brain called synapses.

Learning a second language is becoming increasingly popular worldwide, with millions of people turning to digital tools and ...

Letting an AI assistant handle the hard parts of thinking feels efficient in the moment, but a growing body of cognitive science research suggests that convenience comes at a measurable cost. When ...

Age-related memory decline and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's are often thought of as irreversible. But the brain is not static; neurons continually adjust the strength of their ...

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 a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people’s powers of recollection, I’m often asked how ...

Memory loss often feels like something that arrives late in life. In reality, the story may begin much earlier, long before ...

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, ...