Episodic memory is a type of long-term memory. It helps you remember the time, place, and details surrounding a specific event or experience in your life. For example, remembering what you had for ...
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Scientists just identified sequentially operating molecular 'timers' that decide what the brain stores as a memory and what it lets slip away
Every day, your brain is flooded with experiences, yet only a fraction survive past the next morning. A new study published in Nature in May 2026 now reveals why: a chain of molecular timers, each ...
Rather than holding information in specific areas of the brain, our memories are represented by the connections between neurons, called synapses. According to a recent study from the Salk Institute in ...
Every day, the brain takes in far more experiences than it will ever store. Most dissolve within hours. A few persist for decades. Until now, scientists had only a rough sketch of how the brain makes ...
It has been known for nearly 20 years that slow, synchronous electrical waves in the brain during deep sleep support the formation of memories. Why that is, was previously unknown. How do permanent ...
Researchers have long wished to understand the connection between sleep and memory, especially how the brain encodes long-term memories during slow-wave sleep (while discarding others), or the deep ...
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