Sometimes, we search for information in long-term memory and find it—a name, a movie title, or a vivid example to support a general conclusion. Other times, we're unable to recall what we believe we ...

If you could exist inside any memory from your past as it happened around you, would you? The new opera “The Onion,” about an ...

Over recent decades, research has increasingly supported the notion that specific patterns of eye movements can modulate memory retrieval processes. In particular, bilateral saccadic eye movements are ...

The average human brain weighs about 3 pounds and contains 80 to 100 billion neurons, which are the cells that store information. But how do these cells store information? How do we retrieve that ...

Researchers in the IU Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences recently conducted a study that sheds new light on how an individual’s mind retrieves words and ...

Some new research suggests that excessive sleepiness may be an early sign of dementia. Here's what one neurologist wants you ...

A research team from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), the University of Bonn, and the Medical Center - University of Freiburg has gained new insights into the brain processes involved in encoding ...

Science, New Series, Vol. 354, No. 6315, SPECIAL ISSUE: STAYING ON TRACK: How circadian rhythms influence physiology and health (25 NOVEMBER 2016), pp. 1046-1048 (3 pages) More than a decade of ...

Many parents wonder why their children struggle with memory. Research suggests that memory can be improved through various ...

The Act of Retrieval Memory retrieval requires activating mental representations in long-term memory and copying them into short-term memory, where we consciously experience them. To bring a memory ...