The average human brain weighs about 3 pounds and contains 80 to 100 billion neurons, which are the cells that store information. But how do these cells store information? How do we retrieve that ...

A team of scientists has unveiled how the hippocampus orchestrates multiple memory processes, including encoding new information, forming memories, and retrieving them. A team of scientists from the ...

Figure 1: The declarative versus nondeclarative memory account. In this Perspective, I review data showing that different types of memory are not solely distinguishable on the basis of consciousness ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers investigated whether post-encoding ripples improve emotional memory through amygdala-hippocampal memory restoration or ...

With its ageing population, the prevalence of dementia in Hong Kong is expected to increase. Healthcare researchers from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have developed an innovative ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The science of memory breaks down into three parts: encoding, storage and retrieval. We encode through all five of our senses. Two of ...