Researchers have learned a lot about how memory works. Their insights form the basis of clever strategies that help us ...

In new UChicago study, researchers used Minecraft to test whether positive or negative emotion makes the recall method more ...

A sense of self-awareness is strongly involved in episodic memory. It’s the feeling of personally remembering.

A strong memory sounds like an unmitigated good, but science shows that vivid recall can distort your reality, fuel anxiety ...

Have you ever walked into a room and forgotten why you were there? Or struggled to recall a key detail during an important conversation? Memory lapses like these can feel frustrating, even inevitable, ...

A study using electroencephalography found that the extent of memory retention after sleep is associated with time spent in slow wave sleep. The location where the brain shows neural activity ...

A straightforward nightly activity may act as a memory-boosting tool, a new study has revealed. Writing down just five events from the day significantly improved memory performance in individuals with ...