Rather than holding information in specific areas of the brain, our memories are represented by the connections between neurons, called synapses. According to a recent study from the Salk Institute in ...

We tend to take our ability to remember things like faces, phone numbers, other people's names, and events for granted until they are impaired by memory loss due to Alzheimer’s disease and other ...

You can misremember something just seconds after it happened, reframing events in your mind to better fit with your own preconceptions. Our brains probably do this in an effort to make sense of the ...

A new study suggests that people can misremember events mere seconds, or even fractions of a second after they happen. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Memory is an interesting thing. Most of us may wish it was better. We may envy those with “photographic” memory or people who seem to have no trouble recalling phone numbers, matching faces to names, ...

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We all need to sleep, but very few of us actually get enough of it. Whether it's due to problems falling asleep or staying asleep, not getting enough could actually be affecting our memory. One in ...