A new review explores how episodic memories are formed, stored, and reshaped over time, revealing why our recollections of past events often change.

A study from the University of East Anglia is helping scientists better understand how our brains remember past events—and how those memories can change over time.

The human brain is constantly flooded with sights, sounds and sensations, yet only a fraction of those experiences become lasting memories. Behind that quiet sorting process is a set of biological ...

What is the mechanism that allows our brains to incorporate new information about the world, and form memories? New work by a team of neuroscientists shows that learning occurs through the continuous ...

Tell me about what you had for dinner last night. There are different ways you could fill in the details of that story. You could give perceptual descriptions of how your food looked and tasted. Or ...

A New York University study has found that kidney and nerve tissue cells can form memories much like brain cells. According to the study authors, their findings could help researchers better ...

Memory is a continually unfolding process. Initial details of an experience take shape in memory; the brain’s representation of that information then changes over time. With subsequent reactivations, ...

A new study reveals how our brains store and change memories. Researchers investigated episodic memory - the kind of memory ...

Scientists have been working to decode the magic of the human brain for decades. Despite everything that we've learned over the years, there are still new discoveries to be made. And now, a new study ...