Richard Addante, who has spent more than a decade researching episodic memory—the cognitive process that involves processing and retrieving long-term memory—has identified a new kind of human memory ...

Adaptive memory refers to the idea that human memory systems have been shaped by natural selection to prioritise information relevant to survival and reproductive success. A prominent demonstration of ...

Have you ever put your keys down and then completely forgotten where to find them? The brain has to work hard to protect information in your working memory from distractions. How this process works ...