But after more than a century of intense study how much to we really understand about how and where our long-term memories are stored and retrieved? When we talk about memory we're really talking ...

“During that brief time window, the cortex can be thought of as having been placed in a state of elevated readiness. If the ...

Long-term memory has an unlimited capacity and can hold information for a long time. Once information is encoded into the short-term memory, it can be transferred to the long-term memory to be stored.

Slow, synchronous electrical waves in the brain during deep sleep support the formation of memories - but how?

Memory encompasses the facts and experiential details that people consciously call to mind as well as ingrained knowledge that surface without effort or even awareness. It is both a short-term ...

According to the study, the slow waves make the neocortex, the location of long-term memory, especially receptive to information. The findings could help to optimize the treatment approaches that ...