Researchers have learned a lot about how memory works. Their insights form the basis of clever strategies that help us ...

Memory feels like a mental video archive, but psychologists have shown it behaves more like a creative editor, constantly ...

A sense of self-awareness is strongly involved in episodic memory. It’s the feeling of personally remembering.

A strong memory sounds like an unmitigated good, but science shows that vivid recall can distort your reality, fuel anxiety ...

While memories may fade with time, the explanations people give for why they remember an event remain surprisingly stable and ...

At first glance, having perfect recall might seem like a gift from the heavens. No more embarrassing lapses in which you forget a name seconds after shaking hands, and gone are the grocery hauls where ...

In new UChicago study, researchers used Minecraft to test whether positive or negative emotion makes the recall method more ...