Memory is a continually unfolding process. Initial details of an experience take shape in memory; the brain’s representation of that information then changes over time. With subsequent reactivations, ...

When an individual reflects on who she is, she may think about the characteristic ways she behaves, her career, her closest relationships and what they mean to her, and her goals and motivations. All ...

Someone once said that memory is fascinating because sometimes we forget what we want to remember, sometimes we remember what we want to forget, and sometimes we remember events that never happened or ...

Mr. Watters is a journalist and author whose work focuses on psychiatry and social psychology. Most students in psychology and psychiatry programs today are too young to have any firsthand memory of ...

Roger Johansson was funded by the Swedish Research Council grant no. 2015-01206 Mikael Johansson was funded by the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation award MAW2015.0043. It could help research in ...

Nick Haslam receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Milan Kundera opens his novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting with a scene from the winter of 1948. Klement Gottwald, leader of ...

Short-term and long-term memory function differently, and different issues may affect each one. While occasionally forgetting things is a typical sign of aging, some memory issues may indicate an ...