A fundamental lower-bound on memory recall precision, which declines with storage duration and number of stored items, is derived, and human performance is shown to be well-fit by this theoretical bound.

Biologically plausible changes in the excitabilities of single neurons may suffice to selectively modulate sequential network dynamics, without modifying of recurrent connectivity.

Visual, parietal, and frontal motor cortices play distinct and necessary roles in mapping sensory features to future motor action.

Visual information can be maintained in non-conscious working memory for several seconds via short-term changes in synaptic weights.

Genetic and electrophysiology experiments provide the first direct evidence that protein kinase C is a calcium-sensing protein in post-tetanic potentiation, a form of synaptic plasticity that supports short-term memory.

Interneuron-specific alternative splice variants of the synaptic receptor neurexin are critical for hippocampal network activity and short-term memory.

Analysis of experiments on bacteria suggests that the dependence of cell size on growth rate is not an adaptation but a causal consequence of a regulatory mechanism that controls DNA replication.

A molecule called microRNA-153 helps to prevent rats associating new environments with fear.

Being exposed to cannabinoids in the womb has different consequences for male and female rats. .