The average human brain weighs about 3 pounds and contains 80 to 100 billion neurons, which are the cells that store information. But how do these cells store information? How do we retrieve that ...

Listen to the first notes of an old, beloved song. Can you name that tune? If you can, congratulations -- it's a triumph of your associative memory, in which one piece of information (the first few ...

However, the role of astrocytes in storage and retrieval of memories has not been investigated before," Deneen said. Astrocytes trigger memory recall The researchers began by developing a completely ...