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

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

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

Although our lives feel filled with both wonderful and painful memories, for the most part, they’re mostly just a long process of forgetting. A new study shows that employing certain techniques—known ...

Scientists are gradually understanding more about how and when music therapy works. One of the known uses of music in therapy is for Alzheimer’s and dementia therapy, where listening to music can help ...

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

Understanding how the brain recalls (and doesn’t) recall memories could lead to better treatments for memory disorders. Understanding the brain mechanisms behind this could lead to better treatments ...

Sleep is essential to memory function. Insufficient sleep makes concentrating, absorbing information, and storing and recalling memories difficult. Adults need about seven to nine hours of sleep per ...

A new study could offer some hope for reinstating and rejuvenating old memories. The idea builds off a theory based around "mental time travel," which suggests mentally traveling back to the time of a ...

When a person remembers their friend telling them a funny story, they associate the sound of that friend talking with the appearance of that friend speaking and laughing. How does the human brain form ...

Memory can be broken down into multiple types, including long-term memory, short-term memory, explicit and implicit memory, and working memory. Memory is a process in your brain that enables you to ...