Entering and manipulating dreams may sound like science fiction, but for Freeman Hrabowski Scholar Walter Gonzalez, these ...

Dogs do it, cats do it, deer do it – in fact, many species of mammals can swivel their ears to direct their hearing. Humans lost this ability about 25 million years ago, but according to a new study, ...

New Baycrest research reveals that the brain remembers what we see and what we hear in different ways. Visual memories tend to retain fine details, while auditory memories are more likely to preserve ...

Short-term memories are thought to be formed deep within the brain in structures such as the hippocampus, but little is known about how and where memory-related information is kept in the brain or the ...

Researchers have found that being multilingual may delay dementia diagnoses and that the brains of people who spoke two or ...

A research team has uncovered a fundamental principle of how the brain prioritizes vision and hearing differently depending on whether we are still or in motion. The study provides new insights into ...

BEER-SHEVA, Israel, February 11, 2025 – Chronic stress changes the way our brain processes sounds, according to new research conducted on mice at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. For instance, ...

Maintaining mental sharpness in today’s fast-paced world is more crucial than ever. With the increasing demands on our cognitive abilities, people seek practical solutions to enhance their memory and ...

More than a century ago, Pavlov trained his dog to associate the sound of a bell with food. Ever since, scientists assumed the dog learned this through repetition: The more times the dog heard the ...

Like many children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Jake Sussman struggled in elementary school, especially in areas that required quiet ...

Summary: A new study discovered that randomly played sounds during sleep can actively impair memory consolidation. By utilizing real-time electroencephalography (EEG) monitoring, the researchers ...