Music can lift your spirits, calm your nerves, or break your heart in a few notes. It can also nudge what you remember, but ...

"This response evolved to help us cope with new challenges and can help us form stronger memories in order to deal with these ...

Students often forget what they study over time-not because they aren't putting in enough study hours, but because they are ...

A team of UChicago psychology researchers used fMRI scans to learn why certain moments carry such lasting power ...

A new European cognitive neuroscience study published in this month’s Science Advances reveals that by using the “method of loci," long-term memory can be improved by anyone, not just world champions ...

While the overall experience is stored in the hippocampus, the brain structure long considered the seat of memory, individual details are parsed and stored elsewhere, in the prefrontal cortex. This ...

It usually begins quietly. A thought appears without warning, tied to something unpleasant, and the body reacts before the ...

Adults over age 60 who want to stave off memory loss could benefit from taking a daily multivitamin supplement, suggests a recent study from Columbia University in New York and Brigham and Women’s ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Memory loss associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) may be able to be restored by inhibiting certain enzymes involved in abnormal gene transcription, according to a preclinical study ...

Tooth loss doesn't just make eating harder, it may also make thinking more challenging. A new study from Hiroshima University ...