Increasing evidence indicates that respiratory rhythms are crucial for cognitive functions. Although recent findings have raised the possibility that respiratory activity may serve as an internal ...

Complex behavior entails a balance between taking in sensory information from the environment and utilizing previously learned internal information. Studies on mice show that the brain continually ...

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 ...

For encoding and storage, our memory is remarkable – taking in and representing an indefinitely large amount of information from the world. With retrieval, however, our memory is remarkably limited.

As humans and other animals experience new things, their brains continuously update their memory of past events. These updates allow them to adapt to changing environments, all while preserving older ...