A neuroimaging study in China found that young female college students who participated in an 18-week street dance program ...

A new study reveals that the brain’s responsiveness and capacity for learning shift with the time of day, governed by ...

To help prevent dementia and Alzheimer's disease, people should take a brisk walk each day, limit their TV time and do a crossword puzzle instead.

The best time for learning may be when you feel exhausted. In A Nutshell Rats’ brains respond differently to the same ...

The ways you naturally choose to spend your free time might reveal more about your cognitive abilities than any test ever could.

Speaking multiple languages could slow down brain ageing and help to prevent cognitive decline, a study of more than 80,000 people has found. The work, published in Nature Aging on 10 November, ...

Super-agers have the memory and focus on people decades younger. A neurologist said he's on track to be one with a ...

Our brains do not react in a fixed, mechanical way like electronic circuits. Even if we see the same scene every day on our commute to work, what we feel - and whether it leaves a lasting impression - ...

Quantum computing is still years away, but Nvidia just built the bridge that will bring it closer -- a quiet integration of ...

Lab-grown “reductionist replicas” of the human brain are helping scientists understand fetal development and cognitive ...

Getting enough quality sleep is essential to strong memory function. Understanding the sleep-memory connection may help you learn to prioritize sleep and improve your memory.

We tend to think of memory as exclusively the brain’s domain, but new research suggests that this view may be far too narrow. A study from New York University shows that some ordinary human cells ...