In a world saturated with stories—from ancient myths to TikTok clips—narratives knit together emotion, memory, and meaning. A new study in the Journal of Neuroscience suggests that how a story is told ...

A strong memory sounds like an unmitigated good, but science shows that vivid recall can distort your reality, fuel anxiety ...

Emotion shapes nearly every aspect of human activity — from learning to memory to decision-making — and even influences evolution, University of Southern California neuroscience professor Antonio ...

Why do some moments stay in your memory while others disappear? New research from Boston University reveals that the brain does not randomly choose which experiences to remember. Instead, emotional or ...

It’s no accident that people remember certain events in their lives because of music. Yiren Ren, a psychology researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology, and others published a new study that ...

The soundtrack of this story begins with a vaguely recognizable and pleasant groove. But if I stop writing and just listen for a second, the music reveals itself completely. In Freddie Hubbard's ...

In new UChicago study, researchers used Minecraft to test whether positive or negative emotion makes the recall method more ...

Music can lift your spirits, calm your nerves, or break your heart in a few notes. It can also nudge what you remember, but not always in the way you might expect. A new study takes a close look at ...

We often assume that memory belongs mainly to humans. That remembering faces, feelings, moments and bonds over years is a ...