A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks.

Do you remember the time President Obama shook hands with Iranian president Ahmadinejad? If you took part in a recent psychological study, it’s possible that you will. More than 5,000 participants ...

A surprising new brain study suggests that remembering life events and recalling facts may rely on the same neural machinery.

Why some memories persist while others vanish has fascinated scientists for more than a century. Now, new research from the ...

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 ...

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Memory defines us in so many ways, but it’s not exactly what we think it is. We tend to imagine memory almost like a filing cabinet — a faithful record of the past we can pull from when needed. But ...

Your ability to recall the what, when, where, and how of a past experience comes from episodic memory, a type of long-term, explicit memory. Your memory allows you to retain information so you can use ...

In a world saturated with stories—from ancient myths to TikTok clips—narratives knit together emotion, memory, and meaning. A new study in the Journal of Neuroscience suggests that how a story is told ...

A few years ago, there were twin sisters both enrolled as graduate students in the Cognition and Development program at Emory University, where I teach. We were in a seminar discussing childhood ...