Working memory is a cognitive function that is essential for carrying out everyday activities and temporarily retaining information.

Working memory is a cognitive function that is essential for carrying out everyday activities and temporarily retaining ...

Our brain’s memory center bears a sleek design. A peek into living tissue from human hippocampi, a brain region crucial for memory and learning, revealed relatively few cell-to-cell connections for ...

As organisms grow older, changes in the bacteria living inside the digestive system can directly cause the memory loss ...

However, details of the intervening steps, as researchers have learned in the past 65 years, are quite complex — certain cells carry the flu antigen to the immune system, specific immune cells respond ...

Adults whose brains still have strong neuron production seem to have better memory and cognitive function than do those in whom the ability wanes, finds a study published today in Nature. The authors ...

Researchers found a major histone modification linked to Polycomb proteins is not required for repressing developmental genes ...