An elephant never forgets — or does it? Elephants are intelligent mammals that recall faces and places, but how much can they ...

But after more than a century of intense study how much to we really understand about how and where our long-term memories are stored and retrieved? When we talk about memory we're really talking ...

Although brain size doesn’t necessarily indicate more brain power, elephants have an incredible memory because their cerebral cortex is so big. This is the brain area that stores long-term memories.

Long-term memory has an unlimited capacity and can hold information for a long time. Once information is encoded into the short-term memory, it can be transferred to the long-term memory to be stored.

“But our findings suggest that inflammation in certain neurons in the brain’s hippocampal region is essential for making long ...