A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in ...

A new study challenges the long-standing belief that episodic and semantic memory rely on distinct brain systems.

A surprising new brain study suggests that remembering life events and recalling facts may rely on the same neural machinery.

A team of scientists from the Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research (CNIR) at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has ...

A team of scientists has unveiled how the hippocampus orchestrates multiple memory processes, including encoding new information, forming memories, and retrieving them. A team of scientists from the ...

The average human brain weighs about 3 pounds and contains 80 to 100 billion neurons, which are the cells that store information. But how do these cells store information? How do we retrieve that ...

Have you ever put your keys down and then completely forgotten where to find them? The brain has to work hard to protect information in your working memory from distractions. How this process works ...

Have you ever put your keys down and then quickly forgotten where to find them? When you try to recall where you might have left them, you are drawing on working memory, which is the ability to ...

Listen to the first notes of an old, beloved song. Can you name that tune? If you can, congratulations — it’s a triumph of your associative memory, in which one piece of information (the first few ...