Your ability to recall the what, when, where, and how of a past experience comes from episodic memory, a type of long-term, explicit memory. Your memory allows you to retain information so you can use ...

When we talk to friends and family about our common past, we sometimes discover discrepancies in memory. But that doesn’t mean memory is unreliable. These discrepancies mainly illustrate differences ...

Dementia can be considered to be a sneaky disease, as the condition gradually damages the brain, but early intervention could ...

A leading doctor has discussed how subtle behavioural changes and hearing difficulties may indicate early dementia, even ...

Episodic memory is a type of long-term memory. It helps you remember the time, place, and details surrounding a specific event or experience in your life. For example, remembering what you had for ...

A team of scientists has demonstrated that communication among memory-coding neurons -- nerve cells in the brain responsible for maintaining working memory -- is disrupted with aging and that this can ...

A renowned French scholar and publishing figure, he looked at what societies choose to honor — and forget — in telling their stories. By Jonathan Kandell Pierre Nora, a French scholar whose ideas ...