Innovative brain-wide mapping study shows that an “engram,” the ensemble of neurons encoding a memory, is widely distributed and includes regions not previously realized.

Electric fields may represent information held in working memory, allowing the brain to overcome “representational drift,” or the inconsistent participation of individual neurons.

The act of holding information in mind is accompanied by coordination of rotating brain waves in the prefrontal cortex, a phenomenon that may convey specific advantages, a new study suggests.

The findings may help explain why some people who lead enriching lives are less prone to Alzheimer’s and age-related dementia.

The visual cortex stores and remembers individual images, but mice can’t recognize image sequences without guidance from the hippocampus.

To quickly express learning and memory genes, brain cells snap both strands of DNA in many more places and cell types than previously realized, a new study shows.

As “visual recognition memory” emerges in the visual cortex, one circuit of inhibitory neurons supplants another, and slower neural oscillations prevail.

Research finds that as one looks around, mental images bounce between right and left brain as they shift around in our visual system.

Findings suggest this hippocampal circuit helps us to maintain our timeline of memories.

Modifications to chromosomes in “engram” neurons control the encoding and retrieval of memories.