A team of bioengineers at Tsinghua University, working with medical research colleagues from Tianjin University, both in ...

Feb. 12, 2025 — Researchers have discovered a new type of neuron that plays a fundamental role in recognition memory -- how the brain registers the difference between new and familiar objects ...

In their study published in Nature Communications, researchers identified an unusual type of brain cell they named “ovoid ...

Memory is the faculty by which the brain encodes, stores, and retrieves information. It is a record of experience that guides future action. Memory encompasses the facts and experiential details ...

SHIM Won Mok, another co-lead author, described the research as "an innovative exploration of how the hippocampus coordinates memory formation and retrieval through brain activation patterns ...