Listen to the first notes of an old, beloved song. Can you name that tune? If you can, congratulations — it’s a triumph of your associative memory, in which one piece of information (the first few ...

The ability to link new pieces of information together and the capacity to solve entirely new problems reinforce each other ...

The barrel cortex, a specialised region within the rodent somatosensory cortex, plays a central role in the processing of tactile information derived from the whiskers. Recent studies have elucidated ...

Researchers have a new hypothesis for how brain cells called astrocytes might contribute to memory storage in the brain. Their model, known as dense associative memory, would help explain the brain's ...

The brain has an irrepressible ability to make associations. This is well illustrated by one of my favorite illusions, the McGurk Effect, which demonstrates that what we “hear” is strongly influenced ...

For anyone who has ever returned home to a dog’s uncontrollable excitement, the question naturally arises: is this just ...