Declarative memory, rooted in the hippocampus, could help the brain pick up the slack for diverse impairments across many developmental disorders such as autism and obsessive-compulsive disorder The ...

Priming is an unconscious (nondeclarative) form of memory whereby identification or production of an item is improved by an earlier encounter. It has been proposed that declarative memory and priming ...

From the moment we are born, our brains are bombarded by an immense amount of information about ourselves and the world around us. So, how do we hold on to everything we've learned and experienced?

Researchers have explored how memory is tied to the hippocampus, with findings that will expand scientists' understanding of how memory works and ideally aid in detection, prevention, and treatment of ...

Your ability to recall the what, when, where, and how of a past experience comes from episodic memory, a type of long-term, explicit memory. Your memory allows you to retain information so you can use ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 110, No. 5 (January 29, 2013), pp. 1628-1633 (6 pages) In this study, we used model-based functional MRI (fMRI) to ...

Memory is the term used to describe the storage of the vast amount of information the brain uses to perform various cognitive tasks. Different types of memories are stored by the human brain for ...

Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by a progressive loss of memory. In the early stages, patients experience difficulties in retrieving names and words as well as an increased level of forgetfulness ...