Somewhere in your skull right now, there is no math department. No region of the brain exists solely to process equations, ...

Nuri Jeong remembers the feeling of surprise she felt during a trip back to South Korea, while visiting her grandmother, who'd been grappling with Alzheimer's disease. "I hadn't seen her in six years, ...

A new study reveals how the brain's memory centre becomes more efficient with age, shedding excess connections to sharpen ...

The hippocampus follows a "tabula plena" model, starting with dense, random connections that are pruned into an efficient ...

Navigation in mammals including humans and rodents depends on specialized neural networks that encode the animal's location and trajectory in the environment, serving essentially as a GPS, findings ...

Microscopy image of the mouse hippocampi showing, in green, neuronal connections that act as a “bridge” between both hemispheres. These projections originate from neurons in the right CA1 region and ...

In a new study, Northwestern University neurobiologists found the brain's internal GPS changes each time we navigate a familiar, static environment. This means that if someone walks the same path ...