But their brains noticed, and retained an almost perfect memory of card locations.

Among his many observations, Penfield noted that the brain retains memory even while dormant.

At the same time, intervention studies have demonstrated the ways in which the brain retains its plasticity for language processing.

His brain, strictly specialized for one limited aspect of science, retained only a few fragments of knowledge.

"My brain is retaining all this stuff, but then it's not concerned with the more mundane things in life any more," says Stephens.

Mnemonics aim to translate information into a form that the human brain can retain better than its original form.

They say the sleeping brain retains everything, though the waking mind cannot recall it.

How cold his face was already; but the brain, the brain retained a little warmth.

In fact, confusion was the only impression his delicate positronic brain retained.

Could a human brain be shrunk that much and still retain human intelligence?