Most of our behavior – and thus our personality – is shaped by previous experience. To store the memory of these experiences and to be able to retrieve the information at will is therefore considered ...

Left: Screenshot of spatial memory task. Middle: MRI scan showing the placement of recording electrodes (black circles) in a patient’s brain. [Salman Qasim/Columbia Engineering] An important part of ...

Researchers have provided new insight into the brain mechanisms underlying a condition that causes reading and writing difficulties. Researchers have provided new insight into the brain mechanisms ...

Forming memory is essential for us to learn and acquire knowledge. In the 20th century, Richard Semon introduced the idea of an "engram," a physical substrate of a memory: as an animal learns, ...