Using optogenetics techniques, scientists from Max Planck Florida Institute of Neuroscience identified a new pathway for forming long-term memories in the brain. Their findings suggest that long-term ...

Episodic memory is a type of long-term memory. It helps you remember the time, place, and details surrounding a specific event or experience in your life. For example, remembering what you had for ...

Researchers have discovered a new pathway to forming long-term memories in the brain. Their work suggests that long-term memory can form independently of short-term memory, a finding that opens ...

Rather than holding information in specific areas of the brain, our memories are represented by the connections between neurons, called synapses. According to a recent study from the Salk Institute in ...

Your ability to recall the what, when, where, and how of a past experience comes from episodic memory, a type of long-term, explicit memory. Your memory allows you to retain information so you can use ...

Share on Pinterest New research links a typical Western diet to lasting memory issues. Cavan Images/Getty Images A new study in rats has found that a high-sugar, high fat diet, such as junk food or a ...

Marvin Purtorab, CEO of new startup Convergence, and co-founder Andy Toulis (CTO) met while they both worked at Shopify on recommender systems and AI assistants. They ...