How are emotions and memory connected? Memories do not always reflect the continuous flow of experiences. Everyday memories are woven into meaningful units or episodes. This system of event ...

Before the past year, many of us took computer memory for granted. It was one of the lower-cost parts of a PC build and was ...

In new language learners, errors that include the incorrect recall of foreign words are common. For example, in the Esperanto language, it is easy to confuse the words antidotoj (antidotes) and ...

In a recent study published in Nature, researchers from Stanford University and Yale University have explored the interplay between short-term and long-term memory in animals. Learning and memory in ...

A new study proves spontaneous hypothalamic histamine fluctuations gate moment-to-moment memory accessibility.

A new study reveals that the memory for a specific experience is stored in multiple parallel 'copies'. These are preserved for varying durations, modified to certain degrees, and sometimes deleted ...

A new research paper was published on the cover of Aging, titled "Age-related alterations in the oscillatory dynamics serving verbal working memory processing." Working memory (WM) is a foundational ...

Relapse, a critical issue in alcohol addiction, can be attenuated by disruption of alcohol-associated memories. Memories are thought to temporarily destabilize upon retrieval during the ...

Generating new memories and remembering are two sides of the same coin, although sometimes they can appear as separate mechanisms. These mechanisms which seem to be distanced from each other are ...

The ability to turn experiences into memories allows us to learn from the past and use what we learned as a model to respond appropriately to new situations. For this reason, as the world around us ...