The idea that memory can help you get out of tricky situations seems to make sense. However, new research on memory's ...

When mice encounter an unfamiliar food, neurons in a brain region called the amygdala light up (blue). If the mice start feeling sick after the meal, the same neurons get reinforced to help the mouse ...

It's natural to sometimes lose your train of thought or misplace your keys. But there are strategies for improving your ...

A new study reveals that upsetting distractions significantly impair our ability to sustain attention and also linger more ...

St. Mary’s Church in the city’s Knightsville section continues to celebrate its 100 th anniversary year with special events ...

After 56 years, a book search leads a Mitchell man back to a fleeting encounter — and the story he never stopped looking for ...

A study has captured signs of early memory formation in babies as young as three months old. Understanding how babies learn ...

A few of our Thai, Laotian, and Cambodian writers share their favorite ways of ringing in the new year during this festival ...

Could science fiction become reality? In 2004’s “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” Jim Carrey’s character undergoes a ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

In this important study, the authors use computational modeling to explore how rapid learning can be reconciled with the accumulation of stable memories in the olfactory bulb, where adult neurogenesis ...

Ben Oevering and partners own about 200 apartments as well as self-storage, office and retail space. His ambition: to keep ...