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The Yale neuroscientist seeks to understand the brain’s architecture and function using C. elegans.

Honeybees can remember reward-associated odors three days after a single learning experience.

Adult neurogenesis, already appreciated for its role in learning and memory, also participates in mental health and possibly even attention, new research suggests.

Kim Peek, the inspiration for the title character in Rain Man, brought public attention to savant syndrome.

Microglia ingest nerve cell connections, leading to the loss of information stored in neuronal circuits.

Rats and equations help researchers develop a theory of how our brains keep track of when events took place.

Those who had developed PTSD appear to be less able to suppress unwanted memories—traumatic or not—suggesting a role for the general ability to control memory recall in the disorder.

Under constant darkness, Drosophila’s ability to form lasting memories is impaired.

Virtual reality experiments reveal that the popular drug may make the brain more open to misremembering.

Strategies to make lab animals forget, remember, or experience false recollections probe how memory works, and may inspire treatments for neurological diseases.

Studying nonhuman primates, the University of Washington neuroscientist has identified important features of the neural underpinnings of learning and memory.

The animals develop a new memory that overrides the fearful one by inhibiting the cells that encode the original memory.