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What if Sigmund Freud was onto something that modern neuroscience is only now beginning to explain? A new paper argues that ...

Extensive practice can rewire the brain so a learned skill runs more automatically, making some forms of true multitasking ...

Discover how high estrogen levels may impact trauma resilience, based on recent research exploring hormonal influence on mental health and recovery.

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Working memory is the information we need to access to complete the tasks we’re engaged in right now, and scientists think it ...

Retrieval-augmented generation enhances the performance of AI agents by expanding their recall. It can do this in three ...

The ‘doorway effect’ suggests that when information is removed from working memory, it immediately seems to leave ...