Older adults who play digital puzzle games have the same memory abilities as people in their 20s, a new study has shown.

Researchers found that post-encoding ripples in the brain enhance emotional memory by improving stimulus identification and arousal, indicating a selective reinforcement of salient events for ...

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 ...

Older adults who play digital puzzle games have the same memory abilities as people in their 20s, a new study has shown.

These findings not only deepen our understanding of memory encoding and retrieval but also provide insights into the hippocampus's role as a coordinator and its interaction with the neocortex.

The encoding techniques enable participants to organise pertinent aspects like person, place, time and object, and establish connections between these concepts, enhancing learning and memory.

The new study in Cerebral Cortex shows that as animals played working memory games, the information about what they were remembering was coordinated across two key brain regions by the electric ...

More information: Karl-Heinz T. Bäuml et al, Reinstating memories' temporal context at encoding causes Sisyphus-like memory rejuvenation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025).