New research reveals that human memory may prioritize people and places over context, offering insight into how our brains achieve flexible, enduring recall.

Encoding is the first stage of memory. It is the process by which the details of a person’s experience are converted into a form that can be stored in the brain.

While the underlying mechanism is unclear, neuroscientists theorize saying something out loud separates and distinguishes it ...

To shed light on how trauma affects memory, let's bring in Harvard psychology professor Richard McNally. Welcome. ... alcohol can sometimes impair the encoding and, therefore, the memory of ...

In a recent study published in Communications Psychology, researchers from NYU led by Associate Professor of Biomedical ...

Researchers from HSE University and the University of California San Diego, Igor Utochkin and Timothy Brady, have found new evidence of hierarchical encoding of images in visual working memory.

Memory doesn’t seem to flow very well in two directions. If a brain is busy encoding, it’s going to be weaker at retrieval, and vice-versa. So the students primed with a new scene struggled to ...

Coordinated representations for naturalistic memory encoding and retrieval in hippocampal neural subspaces. Nature Communications , 2025; 16 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-55833-x Cite This Page : ...

Coman was first exposed to the field of collective memory as an undergraduate psychology student at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. At the same time, Professor Hirst was conducting ...