"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." There are so many reasons—normal, non-scary reasons—why we forget things, whether it’s the name of that ...

In a classic experiment in the field of cognitive psychology conducted by Godden and Baddeley in 1975 [1], 18 divers learned lists of words either on dry land or underwater. The researchers found that ...

A. Overview of hippocampal dynamics during movie watching. FMRI data from the hippocampus were measured at the voxel level, and low-dimensional subspaces for two types of novelty and memorability were ...

A University of Minnesota Twin Cities researcher is part of an international team that has used imaging technology to show, for the first time, the creation and elimination of synapses between neurons ...

The brain reads injustice as a threat—to status, to safety, to the predictability of social rules—and encodes the evidence of ...

Episodic memory is a form of long-term memory that captures the details of past events that one has personally experienced. Along with semantic memory, it is considered a kind of explicit memory, ...

After 50, the years speed up because your brain has stopped recording much of what's happening—and there are specific reasons ...

A team that has used two-photon imaging technology to show the creation and elimination of synapses between neurons in the brains of live mice. A University of Minnesota Twin Cities researcher is part ...