Declarative memory, rooted in the hippocampus, could help the brain pick up the slack for diverse impairments across many developmental disorders such as autism and obsessive-compulsive disorder The ...

Priming is an unconscious (nondeclarative) form of memory whereby identification or production of an item is improved by an earlier encounter. It has been proposed that declarative memory and priming ...

Researchers have explored how memory is tied to the hippocampus, with findings that will expand scientists' understanding of how memory works and ideally aid in detection, prevention, and treatment of ...

Your ability to recall the what, when, where, and how of a past experience comes from episodic memory, a type of long-term, explicit memory. Your memory allows you to retain information so you can use ...

Our memories form the foundation of our continuing sense of self. Our understanding of who we are is built up from a lifetime of experiences stored in our brain. Loss of that information about who you ...

Memory is the term used to describe the storage of the vast amount of information the brain uses to perform various cognitive tasks. Different types of memories are stored by the human brain for ...

Education appears to protect older adults, especially women, against memory loss, according to a new study. Education appears to protect older adults, especially women, against memory loss, according ...

Memorization can get a bad rap in education debates, conjuring images of mindless repetition or a “drill and kill” pedagogy. After all, why memorize something when we can look it up on our phone? But ...

Education appears to protect older adults, especially women, against memory loss, according to a study by investigators at Georgetown University Medical Center, published in the journal Aging, ...