A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks.

Everyone sees themselves through their own eyes, but our memories shape how we judge the person staring back in the mirror.

A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in ...

A person’s memory is a sea of images and other sensory impressions, facts and meanings, echoes of past feelings, and ingrained codes for how to behave—a diverse well of information. Naturally, there ...

A new study challenges the long-standing belief that episodic and semantic memory rely on distinct brain systems.

Researchers have investigated the shared and unique neural processes that underlie different types of long-term memory: general semantic, personal semantic and episodic memory. Long-term memory can be ...