Memorizing a series of facts is one thing, understanding the big picture is quite another. Now a new study demonstrates that relational memory -- the ability to make logical "big picture" inferences ...

Researchers describe biological mechanism that allows sleep to build relational memories -- associations between unrelated items. Relational memory is the ability to remember arbitrary or indirect ...

Deficits in the part of memory that forms contextual relationships between individual items in daily life appear to be common in the early stages of psychosis. Deficits in relational memory — the part ...

Relational memory is the ability to remember arbitrary or indirect associations between objects, people or events, such as names with faces, where you left your car keys and whether you turned off the ...