Your sense of self is deeply tied to your memory – here’s how

A sense of self-awareness is strongly involved in episodic memory. It’s the feeling of personally remembering.

Research reveals how the brain turns experience into memory—with help from a tiny protein

Why some memories persist while others vanish has fascinated scientists for more than a century. Now, new research from the ...

What’s a false memory? Psychologists explain how your brain can lie.

There isn’t a hard line differentiating a false memory and simply misremembering where you put your keys. But, in general, ...

Episodic and semantic memory retrievals involve the same areas of the brain, according to new work

A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in retrieving different types of information, according to researchers from the School ...