The degree to which the memories we form are accurate or easily recalled depends on a variety of factors, from the psychological conditions in which information is first translated into memory to ...

Infants can form memories, and they use a memory structure in the brain called the hippocampus to do it, researchers report in the March 21 Science. The results shore up the idea that memories can in ...

Have you ever been on a long drive and suddenly realized that you barely remember the past several minutes of driving?

Experiments point to how scientists can strengthen or weaken memories, which may eventually lead to treatments for Alzheimer’s disease or PTSD.

Once an animal had developed fear of a place, could the memory of that place be made pleasurable instead? To find out, the scientists began by placing male mice in a chamber that delivered a mild ...

How is a single memory formed in that vast electrical storm? How and where is it stored in the brain? And how is it retrieved? Such questions lead only to deeper inquiry, and to notions previously ...

A memory formed during the day is stored temporarily in the hippocampus, before being spontaneously replayed during the night. Information about the memory is distributed out and integrated into the ...

Discover the science behind why we forget and learn lifestyle factors that can improve your memory, plus when memory changes ...

Mice are one of the species that we know experience infantile amnesia. And, thanks to over a century of research on mice, we have some sophisticated genetic tools that allow us to explore what's ...

It can be difficult to recall exactly when a specific event happened, and now it seems our memory can be tricked into pushing ...