Dolphins are the most intelligent creature on the planet. Dolphins have a brain size as the brain size of a human being.

New research on the hippocampus, a brain area essential for memory, suggests that new rules of synaptic plasticity best explain how brain activity continually reshapes the way memories are recorded in ...

As we get older, the essential cleaning processes that our brains need to keep functioning start to break down and fail. In new research, scientists have figured out how to boost waste removal cycles ...

We human animals know from experience that we need to sleep, and that the longer we go without it, the worse we feel. Chronic sleep-deprivation is known to be even fatal. Yet exactly why do we ...

Do other animals do this, or are they mentally ‘stuck’ in the here and now? This project uses AI to investigate. AI systems which remember past events perform better in several important domains, ...