You might say you have a "bad memory" because you don't remember what cake you had at your last birthday party or the plot of a movie you watched last month. On the other hand, you might precisely ...

A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in ...

How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

Subjects in the experiments behind this semantic map had to sit in an fMRI for hours at a time, listening to The Moth Radio Hour, a storytelling podcast. Later, the researchers would painstakingly ...

Using a mathematical model, scientists explored how the human brain might represent information about physical spaces and about people, places and things. Turns out, it may process both in a similar ...

The Semantic Web, the long-ballyhooed concept to make it easier to find pertinent information and link varying types of data on the Web, is finally closing in on critical mass, W3C (World Wide Web ...