This is where memory is essential to identity formation. The self is assembled not from everything that has happened to us, but from what the brain has chosen to preserve and retrieve.

The traditional model of memory proposes that different types of long term memory are processed in separate brain modules.

When Gerald Huang's therapist told him to find any hobby after his wife's death, he bought a $6 bird guide on impulse. Six ...

This study uses a Bayesian framework to characterize latent brain state dynamics associated with memory encoding and performance in children, as measured with functional magnetic resonance imaging.

People with aphantasia have no mental imagery—and they’re offering brain scientists a window into consciousness ...

This important study describes long-range serial dependence of performance on a visual texture discrimination training task that manipulated conditions to induce differing degrees of location transfer ...