For almost a century, psychologists and neuroscientists have been trying to understand how humans memorize different types of ...

We become forgetful as we age. This is often seen as a universal truth, but in fact it is far from universal: some people ...

Recognition memory research encompasses a diverse range of models and decision processes that characterise how individuals differentiate between previously encountered stimuli and novel items. At the ...

What causes forgetting? This is perhaps the most central question to memory research and motivated even the earliest memory research, yet remains hotly debated today. One of the oldest theories of ...

Scientists have employed a novel two-step method of labeling neurotransmitter receptor proteins to track their localization efficiently. The neurons in our nervous system "talk" to each other by ...

People worry about losing their memory as they get older, but what most people don’t realize is that this worry can become a ...