23 March 2022
Our mastery of language presents many mysteries, not least where grammar comes from and how children learn to speak so effortlessly. Now researchers argue that it all makes sense if you think of language as a game of charades
6 October 2021
The idea that recollections of traumatic experiences can be locked away only to suddenly re-emerge years later has once again become a hotly debated issue, with serious implications for investigations of historical abuse
3 July 2020
Rats fed a sugar syrup early in life develop an unusual gut microbiome that seems to worsen the rodents’ memories by changing the way their brains work
27 May 2020
Subtle patterns can be seen in people’s reaction times as their memories are recalled, and boosting these brainwaves could help treat Alzheimer’s disease
4 March 2020
We have finally found time cells in the human brain – they help explain how we recall when events happened, and they could be a target for Alzheimer’s therapies
8 January 2020
More than half of us breathe the wrong way, missing out on many benefits from better health to altered consciousness. Here's how to do it right
14 November 2019
Trigger fish are remarkably good at estimating how far they have swum, perhaps because they have distance-tracking ‘grid cells’ in their brains just like we do
24 October 2019
A study looking at how antibiotics could be used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder has revealed gaps in our understanding of how memories form
7 December 2018
The way we store and retrieve memories prioritises abstract context over specific details, which might help us learn general lessons from our experiences
16 November 2018
Moving backwards - or simply imagining doing it - can be enough to improve scores on memory tests, but we don't know why
