Innocent people are frequently convicted of crimes on the basis of a witness’s false memories. Emerging science poses a ...

Scientists maximize the efficiency of hafnia-based ferroelectric memory devices. A research team led by Professor Jang-Sik Lee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the ...

Understanding emotional memory Temporal order is what gives our memories structure and creates the narrative of our lives.

There’s a paradox in memory science: Empirical evidence and life experience both suggest older adults have more knowledge of the world. However, in laboratory settings, they generally perform worse on ...

Working memory is what allows humans to juggle different pieces of information in short-term scenarios, like making a mental grocery list and then going shopping or remembering and then dialing a ...

The paper, "Organizing the coactivity structure of the hippocampus from robust to flexible memory," is published in Science. Memories inform our everyday actions and guide our behaviors. However, when ...

Researchers have developed a new type of memory cell that can both store information and do high-speed, high-efficiency calculations. The memory cell enables users to run high-speed computations ...

Every day, the brain takes in far more experiences than it will ever store. Most dissolve within hours. A few persist for decades. Until now, scientists had only a rough sketch of how the brain makes ...

Say you need to remember something important. Information from a meeting where taking notes wasn’t possible. A pitch you’ll make to investors. A presentation you’ll make to employees. So you take ...

Think of your happiest memory. A wedding, your child’s birth, or maybe just a perfect night out with friends. Sit with it for a moment. Remember the details. What were you wearing? What did it smell ...