Memory is the faculty by which the brain encodes, stores, and retrieves information. It is a record of experience that guides future action. Memory encompasses the facts and experiential details ...

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 ...

In a new co-authored book, Professor and Chair of Psychology and Neuroscience Elizabeth A. Kensinger points out some surprising facts about how memories work Explaining the science behind memory and ...

but how it is remembered – the visual quality of the memory,” said Ritchey, who conducted the study with Boston College Professor of Psychology Elizabeth Kensinger and post-doctoral researcher Rose ...

the current framework in the psychology field for this process divides episodic memory into two different branches: recollection, which is our ability to recall a memory in its entirety ...

NSSR Alumnus Alin Coman (photo credit: Princeton University) Coman was first exposed to the field of collective memory as an undergraduate psychology student at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, ...

While there are several theories of memory that describe how learners take in, store, and retrieve information, the simplest theory for our purposes breaks memory into the following parts: For the ...

As associate professor of psychology Jennifer Talarico explains in an article from The Conversation, “That might be a handy visual metaphor for memory, but it’s not actually how memory works.” ...

False memories are much harder to implant than previously claimed by memory researchers and expert witnesses in criminal trials, finds a new study led by researchers at UCL and Royal Holloway, ...

A recent study by UCLA researchers offers new insight into how the brain makes sense of sequences of experiences, and it may ...

Yiren Ren, a psychology researcher at Georgia Institute ... which analyzed the connections between music, emotion and memory. They developed a 3-day episodic memory task with separate encoding ...