An experimental study conducted in China found that a 5-week emotion-targeted mindfulness training improved participants’ ...

To complete tasks that require storing relevant visual details for short periods of time, such as solving a puzzle, reading or comparing different objects, humans leverage their so-called visual ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Associate professor Dong Song (L) and first author Xiwei She (R) discuss their machine learning model. (CREDIT: USC) Scientists ...

Diagram of the ventral fronto-temporal network operations necessary for visual object memory. During perception (left), neurons in the anterior ventral temporal cortex (aVTC) are primarily activated ...

Pregnancy and breastfeeding are associated with higher global cognition and better memory in postmenopausal women, per a new longitudinal study.

How the human brain organizes its visual memories through precise neural timing has been discovered. Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC; CA, USA) have made a significant ...

Female brains have historically evolved to adapt to pregnancy, undergoing structural and functional changes. But the cognitive health implications of these adaptations have long been overlooked - ...

Scientists have long known that the hippocampus is essential for forming new memories. It helps record where and when things happen. But how it processes what you see—like objects or images—has been a ...