A new computational method could dramatically accelerate efforts to map the body's cells in space, according to a study ...

EPFL researchers have combined virtual reality, non-invasive brain stimulation and advanced brain imaging techniques to improve spatial navigation in healthy participants. The study is a first step in ...

As we age, it becomes more difficult to remember where things are—whether it’s recalling where we left the keys or where we parked the car. This spatial memory deteriorates further with the onset of ...

Scientists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, and the University of Tokyo have found a mathematical ...

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

A new study shows how the hippocampus binds place and emotion, replaying threat more vividly during sleep to shape memory, ...

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

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