The average human brain weighs about 3 pounds and contains 80 to 100 billion neurons, which are the cells that store information. But how do these cells store information? How do we retrieve that ...

A team of scientists has unveiled how the hippocampus orchestrates multiple memory processes, including encoding new information, forming memories, and retrieving them. A team of scientists from the ...

Figure 1: The declarative versus nondeclarative memory account. In this Perspective, I review data showing that different types of memory are not solely distinguishable on the basis of consciousness ...

With its ageing population, the prevalence of dementia in Hong Kong is expected to increase. Healthcare researchers from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have developed an innovative ...

Social cognition is the study of how people process social information, especially its encoding, storage, retrieval, and application to social situations. There has been much recent interest in the ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The science of memory breaks down into three parts: encoding, storage and retrieval. We encode through all five of our senses. Two of ...