By making people feel as if they inhabit a younger version of their own face, researchers can bring childhood memories into ...

There are some among us who can’t remember which pants they wore yesterday or whether they have plans tonight. Take that ...

Does the hippocampus only track location? A new study shows how the brain's memory center shifts activity between anterior ...

Though there are people capable of incredible feats of memory, true photographic memory has never been proven to exist ...

Studies show THC can influence multiple stages of memory formation, shaping not just what we remember—but how accurately we ...

Building a model of the phenomenon you’re studying can help you understand how that thing works. Roadmaps are models of the highways and roads between here and there. We use them to predict how we ...

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 ...

A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in retrieving different types of information, the findings could redefine how memory ...

This review examines temporal cognition through the lens of Mental Time Travel (MTT): the subjective experience of recalling past events and using them to construct future scenarios. The analysis ...

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.

Not revised: This Reviewed Preprint includes the authors’ original preprint (without revision), an eLife assessment, and public reviews. Goicoechea et al. conducted a timely and thorough meta-analysis ...

What if the future of artificial intelligence is being held back not by a lack of computational power, but by a far more mundane problem: memory? While AI’s computational capabilities have skyrocketed ...