The hippocampal formation is a group of brain regions, including the hippocampus and some other structures closely connected ...

Yale study shows infants' brains can form memories earlier than thought, challenging long-held beliefs about infantile ...

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 ...

“The hallmark of [episodic memories] is that you can describe them to others, but that’s off the table when you’re dealing ...

Even though babies are constantly learning, their memories of specific events seem to vanish. For years, scientists thought ...

Why don't we remember our early years? For a long time, it was believed that infants lacked the ability to remember. However, ...

A new fMRI study reveals that babies as young as 12 months can encode memories, contradicting theories that memory formation ...

Our earliest years are a time of rapid learning, yet we typically cannot recall specific experiences from that period—a ...

Type 2 diabetes may quietly alter the brain in ways that mimic early Alzheimer’s, weakening reward perception and memory ...

New research challenges the idea that infants cannot form memories, showing that babies as young as 12 months old can encode ...

Why is sleep so important for learning and memory? Neuroscientists from the Csicsvari group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) provided new insight into this essential function ...

Why don't we remember our early years? For a long time, it was believed that infants lacked the ability to remember. Recent ...