We tend to take our ability to remember things like faces, phone numbers, other people's names, and events for granted until they are impaired by memory loss due to Alzheimer’s disease and other ...

Rather than holding information in specific areas of the brain, our memories are represented by the connections between neurons, called synapses. According to a recent study from the Salk Institute in ...

You can misremember something just seconds after it happened, reframing events in your mind to better fit with your own preconceptions. Our brains probably do this in an effort to make sense of the ...

Researchers have discovered a new pathway to forming long-term memories in the brain. Their work suggests that long-term memory can form independently of short-term memory, a finding that opens ...

When people lack visual imagination, this is known as aphantasia. Researchers investigated how the lack of mental imagery affects long-term memory. They were able to show that changes in two important ...

A song from childhood can hit you out of nowhere. A smell can carry you back decades. Then again, yesterday’s errands fade overnight. Scientists have long known that short-term memories become lasting ...

Why your short-term memory falters, and how to make it better. Credit...Joyce Lee for The New York Times Supported by By Caroline Hopkins Q: Some thoughts vanish from my brain as soon as I think of ...