To assess and study human memory, psychologists have so far primarily used tasks that require people to verbally recall ...

Human memory did not evolve for perfect recall, Lila Davachi, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Columbia University, noted.

New research reveals that human memory may prioritize people and places over context, offering insight into how our brains achieve flexible, enduring recall.

Harvard cognitive psychologist Daniel Schacter’s work has underpinned a sea change in how we think about memory; namely, that the act of remembering might be the key to how we imagine our futures.

The study shows, for the first time in a realistic setting, the role of ripple-type brain waves in memory encoding and storage. A research team from the Faculty of Psychology at the University of ...

Memory Lane, a new book by Irish psychology researchers Ciara Greene and Gillian Murphy, shows how autobiographical memory has a capacity to rewrite history that is almost Stalinesque.

This limit, which psychologists dubbed the "magical number seven" when they discovered it in the 1950s, is the typical capacity of what's called the brain's working memory.

The new book Memory Lane convincingly demonstrates how memories are like Lego buildings that are constantly being rebuilt.

Human memory did not evolve for perfect recall, Lila Davachi, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Columbia University, noted.