People worry about losing their memory as they get older, but what most people don’t realize is that this worry can become a self-fulfilling prophecy unless you nip it in the bud.

For almost a century, psychologists and neuroscientists have been trying to understand how humans memorize different types of ...

Memory is not a recording device. It doesn't play back events like a video camera would. Instead, it's a remarkably active, ...

A Vivid Memory Intensifies Distortions and False Beliefs. We assume that remembering more means remembering accurately. But that’s not how the brain works. The human memory s ...

A new brain imaging study shows that the hippocampus (green) is the brain's master storyteller, weaving memories of past events into a coherent narrative. Image: Brendan Cohn-Sheehy, Center for ...

Recognition memory research encompasses a diverse range of models and decision processes that characterise how individuals differentiate between previously encountered stimuli and novel items. At the ...