Helen Thomson
Recent articles by Helen Thomson
Memory | A timeline of discoveries
Memory has fascinated scientists and philosophers for thousands of years, so how did we crack the nature of our information archive?
Where do memories form and how do we know?
Memory is an important part of what makes us human but what is it, and where are new memories formed?
Memory and the brain | The key discovery of Santiago Ramón y Cajal
In 1889, Santiago Ramón y Cajal discovered the precise physical structure of a brain cell – the anatomical basis for memory. But how did he do it?