Behavior in complex environments requires decisions that flexibly combine stimulus representations with context, goals, and memory. Two key aspects of such cognitive flexibility are the retrieval of ...

Neuroscientists found that attention and working memory share the same neural mechanisms. Importantly, their work also reveals how neural representations of memories are transformed as they direct ...

Memory and perception seem like entirely distinct experiences, and neuroscientists used to be confident that the brain produced them differently, too. But in the 1990s, neuroimaging studies revealed ...

Memory is a continually unfolding process. Initial details of an experience take shape in memory; the brain’s representation of that information then changes over time. With subsequent reactivations, ...

We have all experienced those frustrating moments when we cannot recall the name of an acquaintance or the level and section of a parking garage where we parked our car. Some of the most frustrating ...

A collaboration between SISSA's Physics and Neuroscience groups has taken a step forward in understanding how memories are ...

The first time I attended New York Fashion Week was in 2017. As I arrived in the city that never sleeps, it quickly became evident as to why people call it that: there simply isn’t time to sleep when ...

A schematic representation of in-memory computing using electrochemical memory devices (ECRAMs) arranged in a cross-point array structure, mimicking the way synapses in the brain process information.

In 1890, psychologist William James described attention as the spotlight we shine not only on the world around us, but also on the contents of our minds. Most cognitive scientists since then have ...