The human working memory (WM) is the cognitive system responsible for the temporary storage and processing of information vital to task completion. In contrast, human long-term memory (LTM) is the ...

Explore the science of memory: Discover how your brain records, retains, and retrieves the past. Uncover why we forget and ...

A team of scientists from the Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research (CNIR) at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has unveiled how the hippocampus orchestrates multiple memory processes, ...

Memories can survive even after the brain temporarily loses more than half of its synaptic connections, according to the results of a study in mice that challenge the long-held view that long-term ...

Challenging long-held assumptions on how memory works, scientists uncover the importance of engram architecture to long-term memory retention. Kazumasa Tanaka, head of OIST’s Memory Research Unit, ...

Episodic memory is a form of long-term memory that captures the details of past events that one has personally experienced. Along with semantic memory, it is considered a kind of explicit memory, ...