How does the brain learn and remember? An academic conference "Frontiers in Bioscience Learning and Memory" was held at City University of Hong Kong on June 16th. Seven prominent scholars from around the world attended the conference included Nobel Laureate Professor Susumu Tonegawa, and renowned academicians Professor David Anderson, from the California Institute of Technology; Professor Duan Shumin and Professor Guo Aike, of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Professor Roger Nicoll, University of California, San Francisco; Professor Poo Mu-ming, University of California at Berkeley; and Professor Dr Wolf Singer, of the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research.