Sleep promotes the consolidation of declarative as well as procedural and emotional memories in a wide variety of tasks. Sleep improves preferentially the consolidation of memories that were encoded ...

A variety of cognitive and behavioral taxonomies are used to categorize AD's progression. One of the simplest ways to categorize the condition is to frame neuropsychological changes into three ...

Is making a sentence like riding a bicycle? A neat little experiment by Victor Ferreira and his co-authors suggests, as I read it, that we store a verbal style and perhaps our very character the same ...

Memory is the term used to describe the storage of the vast amount of information the brain uses to perform various cognitive tasks. Different types of memories are stored by the human brain for ...

A new paper by an international team of researchers presents strong evidence that language is learned using two general-purpose brain systems (declarative memory and procedural memory) that are ...

Scientists examined which type of memory function contributes to syntactic persistence by comparing amnesics with a group of control volunteers. The amnesics in this study experience anterograde ...

With an increasing number of older adults being diagnosed with Alzheimer disease, the need to find meaningful and enjoyable activities in which they can successfully engage is important for providing ...