Why does memory fade? Why does it stay? These questions, among others, occupy the mind of Charan Ranganath, a UC Davis psychology professor in the UC Davis College of Letters and Science and a core ...

How many times today have you walked into a room and forgotten why you were there? It happens to all of us, said Charan Ranganath, and it’s perfectly normal. Ranganath is a professor and memory ...

(CNN) — Most of us are familiar with the frustration of forgetting — whether it’s struggling with a word on the tip of the tongue, misplacing important items such as keys or glasses, or even ...

Charan Ranganath recently wrote an op-ed about President Biden's memory gaffes. He says forgetting is a normal part of aging. His new book is Why... When is forgetting normal — and when is it ...

“Why drag about this corpse of your memory,” Emerson offered in “Self-Reliance.” It was an invitation to let go of past beliefs and things once said aloud — indeed, former versions of ourselves — for ...

Charan Ranganath, a UC Davis neuroscientist, reveals that our memories are reconstructions, not replays, of experiences, highlighting the bias in how we remember events. What Happened: Drawing from ...

UC Davis professor Charan Ranganath collects brain-imaging data with two MRI machines at UC Davis’ Sacramento campus and Center for Neuroscience as part of a project to create humanlike artificial ...

The entrainment of theta brain waves with a commercially available device not only enhances theta wave activity, but also boosts memory performance, according to new research. The entrainment of theta ...

FOR ASTROPHYSICISTS, the final frontier is outer space, but ask a neuroscientist, and the greatest quest for scientific exploration lies within your brain. Vastly more advanced than any supercomputer, ...

Charan Ranganath is a professor at the Center for Neuroscience and Department of Psychology and director of the Dynamic Memory Lab at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of the new ...