Our episodic memory – the ability to recall past events and experiences – is known to decline as we age. Exactly how and why ...

A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in ...

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 ...

Traditionally, explicit long-term memory (the intentional, conscious recollection of things and experiences) is divided into ...

There isn’t a hard line differentiating a false memory and simply misremembering where you put your keys. But, in general, ...

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A new study challenges the long-standing belief that episodic and semantic memory rely on distinct brain systems.

A massive international brain study has revealed that memory decline with age isn’t driven by a single brain region or gene, but by widespread structural changes across the brain that build up over ...

For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the ...

A study in mice suggests infantile amnesia is not a failure of memory, but a developmentally useful process guided by brain ...

New research suggests an association between menopause and anxiety, depression and shrinkage in certain brain regions—which ...