A new study has revealed that neural inhibition and balanced neural activity in a specific area of the brain is required for ...

Decades of research has found that exercise is helpful for overall health and fitness, doing everything from lowering your risk of heart disease to helping you sleep better. According to a new study, ...

Your brain's capacity to strengthen and adapt doesn't decline the way we were taught, but how you use it matters enormously.

In the arena of cognitive psychology, scientists typically devise laboratory tasks that have little to do with everyday life in order to test a theoretical model. Findings from such experiments help ...

How we process the world—absorbing, interpreting, and responding to our surroundings—is never a one-way street. No two people ...

“Approximately 15 percent of cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s disease (AD) might be prevented if effective interventions could be implemented to reduce sleep disorders.” That is the conclusion of a ...

He drew a distinction between the facts we learn and the experiences we remember, which he argued are part of what makes us human. By Clay Risen Endel Tulving, whose insights into the structure of ...

Share on Pinterest Nuts may be a helpful addition to the diets of those who want to improve their memory. Image credit: Gualtiero Boffi/EyeEm/Getty Images. Researchers examined the effects of nut ...

Nick Haslam receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Milan Kundera opens his novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting with a scene from the winter of 1948. Klement Gottwald, leader of ...