A Study of Memory Looks at Fact and Fiction
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New research may advance a longstanding debate about whether the brain can block access to painful memories, like betrayals and childhood sexual abuse, and suddenly release them later on.
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Researchers working with slices of rat brains come up with a microchip that mimics the part of the brain responsible for creating memories. They hope to create a prosthesis for the human brain within 15 years. By Lakshmi Sandhana.
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Malcolm Gladwell examines the science of split-second decisions.
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Most people have had deja vu -- that eerie sense of having experienced something before -- but U.S. researchers have identified the part of the brain responsible for this sensation, and they think it may lead to new treatments for memory-related problems.
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Researchers have found a way to induce  out-of-body experiences using virtual-reality goggles, helping  to explain a phenomenon reported by about one in 10 people.
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How many people have gone home after a blindingly stressful day and realise theyâve forgotten some important event or errand? Well, now at least thereâsa scientific explanation for the oversight: stress makes you forgetful.
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In search of the ultimate lie detector, researchers turn to thermal facial scans, brain wiring and eyeball tracking. But deception still, well, deceives. By Randy Dotinga.
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Memories of traumatic events are not suppressed by the people who experienced them but can be recalled clearly, according to Canadian researchers.
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The videocassette in film: an unsettling innovation, a romanticized artifact, an LP in an MP3 world.
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Imaging the brain during social interaction reveals a deficit that may be tied to a sense of self.
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Sometimes, the two concepts can blur.
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Adults thinking back rarely can remember anything before preshool, but those bright infant eyes staring back at mommy and daddy really are forming memories. It's just that babies also forget. In fact, babies' rate of forgetting is even faster than that of adults, Patricia J. Bauer of Duke University said Friday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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People under stress can probably relate to the fact that they become forgetful and now, researchers have scientific evidence that explains the reason why.
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Because lying is more work for the brain than telling the truth, scanning the organ that holds our deepest, darkest secrets could be the ultimate way to separate fact from fiction, researchers said Monday.
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Also: Paul Allen project maps the brain. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Seeing the world' the digital way on Second Life.
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Scientists believe they may have   finally identified the part of the brain that deals with the   critical issue of matching words to everyday objects.