Many people believe that their memories preserve events exactly as they occurred and store them in their brains. But, as Elizabeth Loftus, an influential psychologist, has demonstrated, “Memory works ...

In addition to memory’s role in allowing people to understand, navigate, and make predictions about the world, personal memories provide the foundation for a rich sense of one’s self and one ...

As events are stored in memory or forgotten, the team asked, how do their visual features change? Ritchey said people reported changes to their memories akin to using a filter to edit a picture. “A ...

We are all collections of memories. They dictate how we think, act and make decisions, and even define our identity. Yet memory, with its many virtues and flaws, has puzzled for centuries.

He'd obviously heard the tale from his parents so often it became part of his memory. I’ve always wondered how my grandfather came to believe his own imagined memories — and it’s part of ...

Neurobiologists and psychologists are discovering the details of how memory works, including pinpointing molecules that can create memories as well as those that can erase memories forever.