New UK research challenges some scientists' fundamental assumptions about how memory works, relying on the entire brain.

Traditionally, explicit long-term memory (the intentional, conscious recollection of things and experiences) is divided into ...

A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks.

You might say you have a "bad memory" because you don't remember what cake you had at your last birthday party or the plot of a movie you watched last month. On the other hand, you might precisely ...

A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in retrieving different types of information, according to researchers from the School ...

While memories may fade with time, the explanations people give for why they remember an event remain surprisingly stable and ...

Though we learn so much during our first years of life, we can’t, as adults, remember specific events from that time. Researchers have long believed we don’t hold onto these experiences because the ...