Memory for single, specific events can strongly influence our attitudes and behaviors — many years after the occurrence of these events. We draw powerful lessons from individual memories that then ...

One doesn't learn something until one has to. Here is what we have learned over the last three years while caring for a parent with declining memory.

Ian McEwan begins “Lessons,” his 17th published novel, with the “insomniac memory” of a piano lesson. Eleven-year-old Roland Baines sits at the keyboard in an Ipswich boarding school where his father, ...

Growing up, my mother would tell me to “stand up straight!” Doing so required concentration and repetition and took some getting used to. In time, though, I’d engrained the specific motor tasks of ...

French scientists reveal how sugar helps fruit flies consolidate memories, exposing a surprising link between hunger and ...