Stored in the anatomy of arrays of neurons, memory is “in the shape of the brain itself,” he says. A temporary vessel Tonegawa is confident that the very existence of physical links between ...

How the brain could regulate a memory’s dynamics was a mystery – until multiple memory copies were discovered. Professor Flavio Donato's research group at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, uses ...

MIT scientists are on the verge of discovering where in the brain memory is stored - and could even find out where individual memories reside, after finding a 'master gene' that controls the process.

A review of more than 130 studies explains how sleep helps people learn new information and plays an important role in storing learned content for future use. The review is published in the ...