Our memory records details and detects patterns in everyday life—often without us even realizing it. Researchers at Lund ...

According to sleep memory theory, dreaming sleep is essential for consolidation of memory. Daydreaming, when we're awake and ...

A dirty habit practiced by 18 million Americans, one in seven of whom are teenagers, may raise the risk of permanent brain ...

By making people feel as if they inhabit a younger version of their own face, researchers can bring childhood memories into ...

There are some among us who can’t remember which pants they wore yesterday or whether they have plans tonight. Take that ...

Does the hippocampus only track location? A new study shows how the brain's memory center shifts activity between anterior and posterior regions to process conceptual vs. spatial discrepancies.

Abstract: The ability to communicate past experiences is fundamental for intelligent and natural interaction. Humanoid robots continuously accumulate rich, multi-modal experiential data and must be ...

A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks. Researchers expected clear differences but instead found strong overlap ...

A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in retrieving different types of information, the findings could redefine how memory ...

This review examines temporal cognition through the lens of Mental Time Travel (MTT): the subjective experience of recalling past events and using them to construct future scenarios. The analysis ...

Not revised: This Reviewed Preprint includes the authors’ original preprint (without revision), an eLife assessment, and public reviews. Goicoechea et al. conducted a timely and thorough meta-analysis ...