Have you ever put your keys down and then quickly forgotten where to find them? When you try to recall where you might have left them, you are drawing on working memory, which is the ability to ...
A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks.
Psychology's fascination with memory and its imperfections dates back further than we can remember. The first careful experimental studies of memory were published in 1885 by German psychologist ...
A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in retrieving different types of information, according to researchers from the School ...
New UK research challenges some scientists' fundamental assumptions about how memory works, relying on the entire brain.