Have you ever been on a long drive and suddenly realized that you barely remember the past several minutes of driving? Although the thought of driving without paying conscious attention to the road ...

For decades, scientists have focused on the brain as the primary location for memory storage and processing. However, recent groundbreaking research from is challenging this long-standing assumption, ...

Have you ever put your keys down and then completely forgotten where to find them? The brain has to work hard to protect information in your working memory from distractions. How this process works ...

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 quiet shift in memory can begin long before a diagnosis of dementia. These early changes often pass unnoticed, even as the ...

To assess and study human memory, psychologists have so far primarily used tasks that require people to verbally recall objects they previously saw in images, past life events or other types of ...