Researchers in the Jonas group at ISTA applied this question to the hippocampus, the brain region responsible for memory ...

Our brain’s memory center bears a sleek design. A peek into living tissue from human hippocampi, a brain region crucial for memory and learning, revealed relatively few cell-to-cell connections for ...

Working memory is the ability to keep information immediately available for a period of time in order to solve a task that may be delayed; it is therefore a fundamental component of higher cognitive ...