While memories may fade with time, the explanations people give for why they remember an event remain surprisingly stable and ...

In the fields of American history and American studies, there is a concept called a "usable past.” (The term was coined by literary critic and historian Van Wyck Brooks in the early 20 th century.) ...

This valuable study links psychological theories of chunking with a physiological implementation based on short-term synaptic plasticity and synaptic augmentation. The theoretical derivation for ...

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 ...

A massive international brain study has revealed that memory decline with age isn’t driven by a single brain region or gene, ...

A landmark international study that pooled brain scans and memory tests from thousands of adults has shed new light on how ...