The experiment surfaced memories he was certain he had forgotten entirely. What Chung experienced was more than just a simple ...

You're walking down a busy street on your way to work. You pass a busker playing a song you haven't heard in years. Now suddenly, instead of noticing all the goings on in the city around you, you're ...

A simple roll of adhesive tape may seem far removed from advanced technology. Yet researchers at Penn State have uncovered something remarkable hidden in this everyday material.

Have you ever gotten a whiff of a certain smell that brought you back to childhood? Or maybe a scent that reminded you of a past love affair? A paper published in Learning and Memory reveals the power ...

Memories of past trauma could soon be ‘dialed down’ in the brain so they no longer haunt us, a leading neuroscientist has suggested. The same techniques could offer tools so that addicts don't crave ...

A group of researchers made a significant breakthrough regarding our understanding of how the brain stores long-term memories. According to a new paper published in Science Advances, there appears to ...

What are your core memories from childhood? Can you lock in a core memory by choice? What do your core memories say about you? The notion of “core memories” has become well known in popular culture.