Elucidating the double duty of sleep in memory processing. University of Toyama. Journal Nature Communications Funder Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan Science and Technology ...

How the study worked. Although we all do it every day, sleep remains somewhat mysterious. "A lot of things are happening during sleep," said the paper's senior author, Itzhak Fried, a neurosurgeon ...

Richard Addante, who has spent more than a decade researching episodic memory—the cognitive process that involves processing and retrieving long-term memory—has identified a new kind of human ...

Say you’re walking around a familiar neighborhood and hear a bark. In milliseconds, the bark zaps to our working memory—a mental “sketchpad” to process data. There, it acts as a cue to retrieve a ...

A new model of memory — and a little-heralded type of brain cell — might explain why the human brain has such a huge storage capacity, researchers reported in the journal PNAS in May.