And according to researchers at Stanford University, it seems old-school fans may have dedicated a specific part of the brain for recalling Pokemon names. And yes, we’re totally serious.

So it's timely that a new paper has just appeared in Nature Human Behavior, concluding that people who avidly played the game as children have developed a unique cluster of brain cells devoted to ...

Researchers at Stanford University have discovered that people who played Pokemon as children in the 90s might share a small region of their brain where all of that information is held ...

Playing Pokemon throughout childhood creates a unique zone in your brain that enables you to remember the characters. Countless hours spent playing the Nintendo game leaves wrinkles in the brain ...

See our ethics statement. By scanning the brains of adults who played Pokémon as kids, researchers learned that this group of people have a brain region that responds more to the cartoon ...