Researchers in the Jonas group at ISTA applied this question to the hippocampus, the brain region responsible for memory ...

Working memory is the ability to keep information immediately available for a period of time in order to solve a task that may be delayed; it is therefore a fundamental component of higher cognitive ...

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 ...

A peculiar pyramidal shape, devised by mathematicians, always comes to rest on its base, slowly and uncannily righting itself when placed on other sides. The object confirms John Conway's longstanding ...