Making inferences from partial information constitutes a critical aspect of cognition. During visual perception, pattern completion enables recognition of poorly visible or occluded objects. We ...

Working with rats, neuroscientists at Johns Hopkins University have pinpointed a mechanism in the brain responsible for a common type of age-related memory loss. The work, published today in Current ...

The contribution of adult-born neurons in the hippocampal dentate gyrus to memory functions is much debated. Tonegawa and colleagues now show that adult-born granule cells switch their roles in ...

"They were using pattern completion." Many studies have examined pattern completion over the past decades, but with one critical weakness. "These studies have all been based on the untested assumption ...