One of the most actively debated questions about human and non-human culture is this: under what circumstances might we expect culture, in particular the ability to learn from one another, to be ...
A baby zebrafish is just half the size of a pea. A recent look inside its transparent brain, however, offers clues to the far bigger mystery of how we remember—and how we forget. In an experiment that ...
One of the most actively debated questions about human and non-human culture is this: under what circumstances might we expect culture, in particular the ability to learn from one another, to be ...
Revue des études slaves, Vol. 86, No. 1/2, VILLES POSTSOCIALISTES ENTRE RUPTURE ÉVOLUTION ET NOSTALGIE (2015), pp. 157-169 (15 pages) This essay is not about Kafka's Prague - a veritable industry of ...
Understanding how brains actively erase memories may open new understanding of memory loss and aging, and open the possibility of new treatments for neurodegenerative disease. The fragrance of hot ...
Challenge your mind. Like a muscle, the brain strengthens with use. Mander suggests learning a new language, playing music, doing puzzles or pursuing mentally demanding hobbies to help reinforce ...
In mice, cells in the hypothalamus clear out old memories while the animals sleep. By Knvul Sheikh One afternoon in April 1929, a journalist from a Moscow newspaper turned up in Alexander Luria’s ...
Some things aren’t worth remembering. Science is slowly working out how we might let that stuff go. By Benedict Carey Whatever its other properties, memory is a reliable troublemaker, especially when ...