"I'm not sure if I turned off the gas valve." "I'm worried about whether I bumped into someone." Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) tends to involve increased anxiety, leading to repeated checking ...

A new theory suggests the universe is constantly recording its own history in the fabric of spacetime. If correct, this cosmic memory could help solve some of the biggest puzzles in physics, from ...

The study focused on a series of interconnected brain regions: CA3, which processes rapidly changing information; CA1, which serves as a central hub; and the retrosplenial cortex, which is important ...

June 8 (Reuters) - A Miami federal judge on Monday ordered Donald Trump's lawyers to explain why they should not be penalized for missing a Friday deadline ‌to respond to the BBC's motion to dismiss ...

Scientists at Stanford may have uncovered a hidden reason our brains decline with age. Studying the ultra-short-lived turquoise killifish, researchers discovered that the cellular machinery ...

Hollywood loves a superpower. Not all involve capes or cosmic rays. Some are cognitive: characters who can remember everything. In movies and on TV, viewers repeatedly encounter those with ...

This raises the possibility that theta oscillations do not have a role in retrieval, and are instead involved in encoding-related events that support memory updating, contextual integration and ...

Having low working memory makes conversation difficult. The simple act of thinking about your own opinion while listening to the other person becomes challenging. As a clinical psychologist conducting ...

For almost a century, psychologists and neuroscientists have been trying to understand how humans memorize different types of information, ranging from knowledge or facts to the recollection of ...

Social memory - the ability to recognize familiar individuals and distinguish them from strangers - is fundamental to social cognition. Deficits in social memory are hallmarks of multiple ...