Researchers found that tau is essential for turning new experiences into lasting memories by helping organize the brain's ...

MIT's DAAAM research gives robots a memory of what it seen, letting it build a detailed map of a space with descriptions that it ca attach descriptions to objects in that map, and answer plain English ...

A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks. Researchers expected clear differences but instead found strong overlap ...

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 ...

Stress is the brain’s natural response to fear, but it often disrupts memory in the process, potentially impacting the possibility of memory loss. When preparing for a big presentation or taking a ...

The assumption that crumbled first The standard view held that episodic memory, the ability to mentally replay a specific ...

Have you ever taken a moment or two to search through your memory bank to find the right word? If so, you may want to take one of Abhilasha Kumar’s quizzes. The assistant professor of psychology is ...

All memory storage devices, from your brain to the RAM in your computer, store information by changing their physical qualities. Over 130 years ago, pioneering neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal ...