Memory for single, specific events can strongly influence our attitudes and behaviors — many years after the occurrence of these events. We draw powerful lessons from individual memories that then ...

Lessons from amnesia In the mid-20th century, famous case studies of amnesic patients were the early evidence of this distinction between semantic and episodic memory. For example, Henry Molaison and ...

One doesn't learn something until one has to. Here is what we have learned over the last three years while caring for a parent with declining memory.

Growing up, my mother would tell me to “stand up straight!” Doing so required concentration and repetition and took some getting used to. In time, though, I’d engrained the specific motor tasks of ...

Some researchers suggest these are not distinct types of memory, but rather stages of memory. In this view, memory begins in sensory memory, transitions to short-term memory, and then may move to long ...

You might say you have a “bad memory” because you don’t remember what cake you had at your last birthday party or the plot of a movie you watched last month. On the other hand, you might precisely ...