Our memories form the bedrock of who we are. Those recollections, in turn, are built on one very simple assumption: This happened. But things are not quite so simple. “We update our memories through ...

Life is full of disconnected events, and memory allows us to connect those events (experiences) and construct our stories. Our memories constitute who we are (what happened to us in the past) and help ...

Create a thriving community of readers—and keep meeting attendance high—with these fun and easy tips for starting a book club You’ve just turned the final page of your book. You’ve got all sorts of ...

Forgetting names or your keys isn’t generally a sign that anything is seriously wrong with your memory, according to neuroscience. But that doesn’t mean these common lapses in memory aren’t annoying ...

A friendship expert shares strategies for finding connection in a lonely, disconnected world. By Catherine Pearson In July, Marisa Franco went on a solo vacation to Mexico. But by the time she flew ...

Neurons with less-compressed DNA are more likely to be recruited into the set of cells, known as an engram, that forms a new memory and retains it, according to a study in mice 1. How tightly a ...