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

In Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov reflects on his past with such vivid clarity that people and places seem suspended in time, untethered from specific moments. His recollections evoke the feeling ...

Your memory relies on reusing, overlapping and adapting rather than on a fixed number of storage spots. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

The study shows, for the first time in a realistic setting, the role of ripple-type brain waves in memory encoding and storage. A research team from the Faculty of Psychology at the University of ...

We tend to think of human memory as if it's one of those old steel filing cabinets: some information gets stashed inside, and when the time comes, we hope we can find it by flipping through the tabs ...

Elizabeth F. Loftus, distinguished professor of psychological science and criminology, law & society, has been named a Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS and a study she co-authored has won a 2025 ...