Researchers have identified the specific cell group in the brain that plays a central role in our ability to discriminate familiar and novel things, which is called recognition memory. This discovery ...

This post was co-authored by Mattia Wruble, Williams College class of 2014. A criminal case—and on the fate of the accused—often hinges on eyewitness testimony. A new article shows that eyewitnesses ...

Researchers headed by a team at Cedars-Sinai have discovered two types of brain cells that play a key role in dividing continuous human experience into distinct segments that can be recalled later.

During the study, the research team delivered neurostimulation to study participants during visual recognition memory tasks. They found significant changes in how well people remembered images. In ...

Welcome to the Cognitive Experiments, Models, and Neuroscience Lab! Our research focuses on human perception and memory from a broad-based, computational perspective. To shed light on these basic ...

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Scientists at the University of Virginia in the United States have shown, in mouse models, that the breakdown of perineuronal ...