Your implicit memory helps you remember how to do things without consciously thinking about it. It includes skills and habits, like how to ride a bike and how to get around your house. It also ...

Most false memories aren’t malicious or even intentionally hurtful. However, some false memories can have significant consequences, including in court or legal settings where false memories may ...

In popular culture, we usually associate "muscle memory" with tasks we do, or skills we learn, without much conscious thought ...

A person’s memory is a sea of images and other sensory impressions, facts and meanings, echoes of past feelings, and ingrained codes for how to behave—a diverse well of information. Naturally, there ...

Why your brain was never built to remember everything, explained by a neuroscientist ...

Myth 1: Memory is too flawed and impermanent to be trustworthy. Fact: Extensive research supports the accuracy and dependability of long-term memories—for both personal experiences and experimental ...

Smell is a powerful sense. It can improve alertness, reduce anxiety and influence self-confidence. Certain odours can even prime people to have safe sex. Odours provide a richness to our perception of ...

The mysteries of how memory works are explained in a new book that suggests anyone can boost their powers of recall -- and that losing your keys is normal. The mysteries of how memory works are ...

Memory function is vulnerable to a variety of pathologic processes including neurodegenerative diseases, strokes, tumors, head trauma, hypoxia, cardiac surgery, malnutrition, attention-deficit ...

In this Review, we outline evidence supporting the concept of evolving knowledge through a process of memory triage that first identifies which memories should go through sleep-dependent memory ...