The human brain is constantly flooded with sights, sounds and sensations, yet only a fraction of those experiences become lasting memories. Behind that quiet sorting process is a set of biological ...

A new review explores how episodic memories are formed, stored, and reshaped over time, revealing why our recollections of past events often change.

Like a computer system with built-in redundancies, a study has revealed that brains use three different sets of neurons to store a single memory. The finding could one day help soften painful memories ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Memory has long been exclusively associated with the brain, but a new study found that other parts of the body are also capable of making memories. The new research was published in ...

A minority of people have hyperthymesia, or highly superior autobiographical memory, so they can remember events in their ...

A study from the University of East Anglia is helping scientists better understand how our brains remember past events—and how those memories can change over time.

The hippocampus serves as the primary learning and memory center of the brain, but this is not where our memories are held. Rather, memory traces or engrams are represented by the connections between ...

Every day, the brain is flooded with fleeting impressions, yet only a small fraction hardens into the stories we carry for a ...

The ability to turn experiences into memories allows us to learn from the past and use what we learned as a model to respond appropriately to new situations. For this reason, as the world around us ...

Tell me about what you had for dinner last night. There are different ways you could fill in the details of that story. You could give perceptual descriptions of how your food looked and tasted. Or ...

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