Sensory memories are stored for a few seconds at most. They come from the five senses: hearing, vision, touch, smell, and taste. They are stored only for as long as the sense is being stimulated. They ...

Memory refers to a process by which your brain takes in information, stores that information, and retrieves it later. You have three kinds of memory: Implicit memory is a type of long-term memory ...

Robert Jacobs receives funding from the National Science Foundation. When asked the other day about a bakery near my home, I responded that I’d recently eaten its mouth-watering chocolate chip cookies ...