You wake up after a terrible night of sleep, and the fog is immediate: names slip away, your train of thought derails ...

A newly discovered developmental process reveals that the brain’s primary memory center starts out with an excess of tangled, ...

Most of what happens to you every day vanishes without a trace. Countless walks, interactions, meals, and discussions have little or no long-term impact on your brain. You will have no memory of many ...

Your brain can mentally time travel through memory replay, a hippocampus process that helps consolidate memories and may even ...

Scientists once viewed the thalamus largely as a relay station: a kind of biological switchboard routing sensory information ...

Psychological research helps to explain why certain awkward memories feel mentally “sticky.” Here’s how you can weaken their ...

Our memories of past events are typically not isolated, but they are linked to other related memories. This ability to ...

As humans and other animals experience new things, their brains continuously update their memory of past events. These ...

Ever wake up convinced something happened that actually didn’t? That vivid memory of a conversation with your friend, a movie you’re sure you watched, or an event that feels completely real but never ...

A new study changes the way we understand memory. Until now, memories have been explained by the activity of brain cells called neurons that respond to learning events and control memory recall.

Researchers discover a neural switch in the medial septum that commands the brain to retrieve recent memories, shedding light ...

Since then, many more researchers have reported evidence for neurons changing how they respond to certain stimuli or ...