Memory is a continually unfolding process. Initial details of an experience take shape in memory; the brain’s representation of that information then changes over time. With subsequent reactivations, ...

A new study induced artificial hibernation in lab mice and may have revealed something fundamental about the nature of memory ...

A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks. Researchers expected clear differences but instead found strong overlap ...

Long-term memory lets you remember things for days, years, or even a lifetime. There are two main types of long-term memory: explicit and implicit. Repeating and thinking about memories makes them ...

Have you ever put your keys down and then quickly forgotten where to find them? When you try to recall where you might have left them, you are drawing on working memory, which is the ability to ...

Imagine you're 6 years old and in the back seat of your parents' car on a road trip. Your mum decides to stop for breakfast food at lunchtime and pulls into a quiet roadhouse where other travelers eat ...

You might say you have a “bad memory” because you don’t remember what cake you had at your last birthday party or the plot of a movie you watched last month. On the other hand, you might precisely ...