A new review explores how episodic memories are formed, stored, and reshaped over time, revealing why our recollections of past events often change.

A study from the University of East Anglia is helping scientists better understand how our brains remember past events—and how those memories can change over time.

Every day, the brain is flooded with fleeting impressions, yet only a small fraction hardens into the stories we carry for a ...

The human brain is constantly flooded with sights, sounds and sensations, yet only a fraction of those experiences become ...

UC Santa Cruz research innovations and academic programs advance brain and mental health.

A landmark study led by UCLA Health has begun to unravel one of the fundamental mysteries in neuroscience – how the human brain encodes and makes sense of the flow of time and experiences. The study, ...

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 new study highlights five key eras of human brain development, and they don’t align with age quite as one might expect.

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 ...

A human brain with the hippocampus highlighted. RIKEN researchers have developed a model that may explain how context-dependent behavior ...