There isn’t a hard line differentiating a false memory and simply misremembering where you put your keys. But, in general, ...

Memory feels like a mental video archive, but psychologists have shown it behaves more like a creative editor, constantly ...

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

How the human brain organizes its visual memories through precise neural timing has been discovered. Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC; CA, USA) have made a significant ...

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Cosmology has a way of turning everyday certainty inside out, and few ideas do it more brutally than the suggestion that your ...

A plume of red, a searing pain and the sounds of summer—these are fragments of my earliest memory, when I stepped on a glass shard in a Toronto splash park at six or seven years old. I don’t remember ...

Your memory relies on reusing, overlapping and adapting rather than on a fixed number of storage spots. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

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