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 ...

As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people’s powers of recollection, I’m often asked how memory works – and what we can do to use it more effectively. Happily, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Memory is the fundamental cognitive process of encoding, storing, and retrieving information, specifically your experiences and knowledge. Some memories last mere seconds before your brain discards ...

Have you ever been on a long drive and suddenly realized that you barely remember the past several minutes of driving? Although the thought of driving without paying conscious attention to the road ...

Explicit memory is a type of long-term memory used to recall conscious thoughts about personal life, public events, and things you learned along the way. Share on Pinterest Westend61/Getty Images ...

Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology have demonstrated that emotion enhances memory for contextual details, challenging the view that emotion impairs the ability to ...

Remembering the past can help living organisms make better decisions, but memory comes at a cost. Whether it is an animal searching for food or a single cell responding to its surroundings, storing ...

Performing mundane tasks, like brushing your teeth, or remembering the lyrics to a song you haven’t heard in years, are examples of implicit memory. Share on Pinterest Maskot/Getty Images Implicit ...