Patterns of neural activity called theta oscillations have a role in memory encoding but – contrary to current thinking – do not appear to have a role in memory retrieval.

A. Overview of hippocampal dynamics during movie watching. FMRI data from the hippocampus were measured at the voxel level, and low-dimensional subspaces for two types of novelty and memorability were ...

The average human brain weighs about 3 pounds and contains 80 to 100 billion neurons, which are the cells that store information. But how do these cells store information? How do we retrieve that ...

Light has always carried more than brightness. In this case, it also carries direction and twist. That mix may open a new ...

Sometimes, we search for information in long-term memory and find it—a name, a movie title, or a vivid example to support a general conclusion. Other times, we're unable to recall what we believe we ...

In early Alzheimer’s disease, people have trouble remembering what they did days, or even hours, prior. Is this because they lose the ability to store new memories, or are memories formed, but not ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The science of memory breaks down into three parts: encoding, storage and retrieval. We encode through all five of our senses. Two of ...

Microsoft has unveiled an automated DNA storage and retrieval system that could one day replace optical-storage systems like Facebook's Blue-ray disc-based cold storage. Microsoft believes synthetic ...