On the flip side, sleep also may be used to supercharge your memories and improve your recall. “In part, while we are ...

There isn’t a hard line differentiating a false memory and simply misremembering where you put your keys. But, in general, ...

Have you ever noticed how a particular song can bring back a flood of memories? Maybe it’s the tune that was playing during your first dance or the anthem of a memorable road trip. People often think ...

Half-forgotten memories can be resurrected using "mental time travel," a new study suggests. The research, published Monday (July 28) in the journal PNAS, showed that a person can rejuvenate their ...

Splashing in the rain with your family. Getting engaged. Sledding down a hill with your dog. These “big” little moments are getting their own moment in the Sun as part of the “core memories” trend on ...

When you die, your memories die with you, never to be experienced again. Or at least, that’s always been how the case. Now, though, in an exercise to assess shifting scientific consensus, a cohort of ...

Childhood trauma is assumed to be something that permanently shapes us, but what if adult relationships play a role in ...

It turns out memories have a very shaky foundation. Did your memories ever really happen? Turns out, every time you recall a memory, it gets a little more false. Scientists explain why your memories ...

Implicit and explicit memory are both types of long-term memory. The information we store or remember unconsciously is called implicit memory, while the information we memorize consciously is known as ...

Most of what happens to you every day vanishes without a trace. Countless walks, interactions, meals, and discussions have little or no long-term impact on your brain. You will have no memory of many ...

Many days blur together in our memories, but emotionally charged moments tend to leave a much sharper image. These experiences tend to stay with us for a long time, often becoming the milestones of ...

Krystle Vermes is a Boston-based news reporter for Android Police. She is a graduate of the Suffolk University journalism program, and has more than a decade of experience as a writer and editor in ...