Improving memory with magnets

Published: 28 March 2017

The ability to remember sounds, and manipulate them in our minds, is incredibly important to our daily lives — without it we would not be able to understand a sentence, or do simple arithmetic. New...

How the brain recognizes familiar music

Published: 12 March 2014

Research from McGill University reveals that the brain’s motor network helps people remember and recognize music that they have performed in the past better than music they have only heard. A...

Brain development controlled by epigenetic factor

Published: 10 March 2015

McGill researchers have discovered, for the first time, the importance of a key epigenetic regulator in the development of the hippocampus, a part of the brain associated with learning, memory and...

Brenda Milner awarded prestigious Kavli Prize in Neuroscience

Published: 29 May 2014

Dr. Brenda Milner, an active researcher at the age of 95 at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital - The Neuro, McGill University, is a recipient of The 2014 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience.

Pioneering memory researcher Brenda Milner inducted into the Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame

Published: 5 February 2013

November 21 2012 - Dr. Brenda Milner, pioneer in the field of cognitive neuroscience whose discoveries revolutionized the understanding of memory, is being inducted into the Canadian Science and...

What is your memory style?

Published: 15 December 2015

Why is it that some people have richly detailed recollection of past experiences (episodic memory), while others tend to remember just the facts without details (semantic memory)?...

Finding the way to memory

Published: 5 February 2013

Guidance proteins regulate brain plasticity

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