Articles About cognitive neuroscience

The brain has no lymph vessels. What it uses instead runs on your heartbeat and switches on at night. Whether sleep really speeds it up is now an open fight.

Semantic memory is the brain's invisible encyclopedia, a knowledge store built over decades, and the last form of memory to fall when everything else is forgotten.

Old memories do not fade quietly. The science of proactive interference reveals how your brain's past actively fights against everything you try to learn next.