Sometimes, we search for information in long-term memory and find it—a name, a movie title, or a vivid example to support a general conclusion. Other times, we're unable to recall what we believe we ...

Scientists instructed people to remember or forget words and then checked what words they retained in their memory after a 12 ...

On the extreme side of the spectrum, there are people with eidetic memories, photographic memories, and what is called ...

The average human brain weighs about 3 pounds and contains 80 to 100 billion neurons, which are the cells that store information. But how do these cells store information? How do we retrieve that ...

Memories are not immutable records. Instead, they are dynamic reconstructions, revised each time we retrieve them.

Over recent decades, research has increasingly supported the notion that specific patterns of eye movements can modulate memory retrieval processes. In particular, bilateral saccadic eye movements are ...

A research team from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), the University of Bonn, and the Medical Center - University of Freiburg has gained new insights into the brain processes involved in encoding ...

Generating new memories and remembering are two sides of the same coin, although sometimes they can appear as separate mechanisms. These mechanisms which seem to be distanced from each other are ...

Science, New Series, Vol. 354, No. 6315, SPECIAL ISSUE: STAYING ON TRACK: How circadian rhythms influence physiology and health (25 NOVEMBER 2016), pp. 1046-1048 (3 pages) More than a decade of ...

A. Overview of hippocampal dynamics during movie watching. FMRI data from the hippocampus were measured at the voxel level, and low-dimensional subspaces for two types of novelty and memorability were ...

My first real Java application, back in 1997, was a servlet-based group scheduler. It wasn’t quite the smash hit that Hanson’s “MMMBop” was that summer, but as some of you may recall, it had its ...