Our personalities are strongly formed by memories. Among the most significant may be those whose details have faded.

Recent research suggests that repeated "replays" of episodic memories—i.e., memories of personal episodes from our past—can help improve our ability to visually distinguish between scenes, faces, and ...

Episodic memory is a form of long-term memory that captures the details of past events that one has personally experienced. Along with semantic memory, it is considered a kind of explicit memory, ...

A groundbreaking study has found that adults can recall more detailed childhood memories after briefly perceiving themselves with a childlike version of their own face.

The long-term mental health of athletes who participate in contact sports such as football depends on the identification of ...

July 2, 2010 — A new report from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) finds that the combination of positron emission tomography with 18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG-PET) measuring ...

Black-capped chickadees have extraordinary memories that can recall the locations of thousands of morsels of food to help them survive the winter. Now scientists at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute have ...

Much like squirrels, black-capped chickadees hide their food, keeping track of many thousands of little treasures wedged into cracks or holes in tree bark. When a bird returns to one of their many ...

With dementia becoming ever more prevalent, many people are looking for ways to ensure their brains stay healthy and sharp for years to come. There are a lot of different factors that can affect ...