University of Toronto psychologist Endel Tulving came up with numerous paradigm-shifting theories about how memory functions, and backed them up years later using human studies. “He was one of the ...

Scientists have shown that brain connectivity patterns can predict mental functions across the entire brain. Each region has ...

In Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov reflects on his past with such vivid clarity that people and places seem suspended in time, untethered from specific moments. His recollections evoke the feeling ...

We tend to think of human memory as if it's one of those old steel filing cabinets: some information gets stashed inside, and when the time comes, we hope we can find it by flipping through the tabs ...

A Flinders University study, published in the Journal of Neurochemistry and led by neuro­scientist Yee Lian Chew, has shown the chemical dopamine is essential for the brain to ­“actively forget”.

For 50 years, Newfoundland psychologist Carole Peterson has been listening to children tell their life stories and helping us learn not only how early we can remember things, but how reliable children ...