Memory is a continually unfolding process. Initial details of an experience take shape in memory; the brain’s representation of that information then changes over time. With subsequent reactivations, ...

As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people's powers of recollection, I'm often asked how memory works—and what we can do to use it more effectively. Happily, ...

Have you ever wondered how much information your brain can actually hold? According to Professor Paul Reber from Northwestern ...

Imagine you're 6 years old and in the back seat of your parents' car on a road trip. Your mum decides to stop for breakfast food at lunchtime and pulls into a quiet roadhouse where other travelers eat ...

A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks. Researchers expected clear differences but instead found strong overlap ...

You might say you have a “bad memory” because you don’t remember what cake you had at your last birthday party or the plot of a movie you watched last month. On the other hand, you might precisely ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called Inside the Lab, which gives audiences a first-hand look at the research laboratories at the University of Chicago and the scholars who are tackling some ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Your memory is not a camera. F.J. Jimenez/Moment via Getty Images Hollywood loves a superpower. Not all involve capes or cosmic ...

On May 26, 2011, neuroscientist Steve Ramirez, then a Ph.D. student at MIT, and his colleague, the late Xu Liu, placed a mouse into a box where it had never had any negative experiences and then ...