✨ The friendly brain magazine
Little stories about your big brain
A magazine about the scientists who study the brain, the discoveries that changed neuroscience, and the everyday workings of the mind.
Fresh stories
- Discoveries
The memories left by a patient who could not remember — H.M. and the hippocampus
After brain surgery in 1953, Henry Molaison could no longer form new memories. Decades of research showed that memory is not one thing.
- The everyday brain
What happens to memories while you sleep
The observation that sleeping after learning helps memory dates back to 1924. Follow the research on how the sleeping brain replays the day's experiences.
- The everyday brain
Why is multitasking so hard? The cost of shifting attention
Doing two things at once really means switching between them fast. Task-switching research explains what each switch costs.
- The everyday brain
Why does a phone number you just heard slip away so fast?
Forgetting a number seconds after hearing it isn't bad memory. From Miller's magic seven to Cowan's four chunks, here is why.
