A new study has uncovered how the brain efficiently encodes and recalls visual memories—by organizing them into categories ...

If certain memories still play in high definition, it might say more about your mind than you’ve ever given it credit for.

This valuable manuscript addresses the longstanding question of how the brain maintains serial order in working memory, proposing a biologically grounded model based on synaptic augmentation ...

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Our memories don’t flow like a continuous stream—they’re divided into meaningful events, thanks to a tiny brain region called the locus coeruleus.

A freelance reporter in London tries to sell his boyhood stamp collection and takes a journey through memory and vanished nations.