Why some memories persist while others vanish has fascinated scientists for more than a century. Now, new research from the ...

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, ...

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A study in mice suggests infantile amnesia is not a failure of memory, but a developmentally useful process guided by brain ...

New research reveals memory loss with age follows a curved pattern, linked to widespread brain shrinkage rather than a single ...

There isn’t a hard line differentiating a false memory and simply misremembering where you put your keys. But, in general, false memories are completely made up rather than a small memory error. In ...