New research reveals that human memory may prioritize people and places over context, offering insight into how our brains ...

Music has long been used to aid memory in conditions like Alzheimer’s, but how it works on the brain has remained unclear.

Why do some older adults easily remember the name of a new acquaintance or the location of their keys, while others struggle ...

While the underlying mechanism is unclear, neuroscientists theorize saying something out loud separates and distinguishes it ...

If hearing an old song or getting a whiff of freshly sharpened pencils instantly carries you back to high school, you’re ...

In a recent study published in Communications Psychology, researchers from NYU led by Associate Professor of Biomedical ...

That theory posits that, if memories were shrubs, the non-REM phase of sleep helps them grow taller and stronger. The REM ...

A bill for it to be taught in schools heads to the state Senate after passing last week in the House by a 195-8 margin.

In his review of the state of the NHS, Lord Darzi commented that the health service is in the "foothills of digital ...

Published in Science Adviser on Thursday, Yale University researchers investigated “infantile amnesia” by performing memory ... encoding processes in babies for stimuli that are, in some sense, ...

As India’s criminal justice system grapples with how to use BEOS, the government has made forensic sciences a top national priority. The country aims to have at least 150,000 forensic experts by 2028.

Eyewitness misidentifications have long been a source of wrongful convictions, casting doubt on the reliability of memory in ...