Can a creature with one cell and no brain still learn from experience? A growing body of biology suggests that the answer is ...

Our brains are filled with lots of specialized structures that do things like process visual information, handle memories, or interpret language. One of the ways we try to understand what a brain is ...

A giant, single-celled organism with no brain, neurons, or nervous system has demonstrated an advanced form of learning ...

Neuroscientists and psychologists have been trying to understand how the human brain supports learning and the encoding of ...

Has the scent of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies ever taken you back to afternoons at your grandmother's house? Has an old song ever brought back memories of a first date? The ability to remember ...

Has the scent of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies ever taken you back to afternoons at your grandmother's house? Has an old song ever brought back memories of a first date? The ability to remember ...

Researchers at EPFL have found that an existing drug used to treat cancer, among other things, also seems to improve memory. Intriguingly, tests in mice show that the drug works by switching on genes ...

Don Arnold receives funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute on Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and the McKnight Foundation. USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and ...

A randomized placebo controlled experiment shows that increasing noradrenaline during learning does not improve basic memory ...