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

In today’s educational and leadership arenas, a dangerous narrative has emerged: Self-styled “enlightened” educators disparage rote memorization as obsolete, championing critical thinking alone. Yet ...

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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A minority of people have hyperthymesia, or highly superior autobiographical memory, so they can remember events in their lives in cinematic detail.

A landmark international study that pooled brain scans and memory tests from thousands of adults has shed new light on how structural brain changes are tied to memory decline as people age. The ...