New research challenges the idea that infants cannot form memories, showing that babies as young as 12 months old can encode ...

More broadly, a major function of memory in humans and other animals is to help ensure that our behavior fits the present situation and that we can adjust it based on experience. What is encoding?

Babies encode memories, but they’re unable to recall them later in life, a new study shows. This finding offers insight into ...

The human brain continuously processes the wide range of information it acquires from the outside world. Over time, this information is organized into mental representations, referred to as "schema," ...

According to the “encoding specificity principle,” the most effective memory cues are those that match the context of the remembered experience. Where is episodic memory in the brain?

Our earliest years are a time of rapid learning, yet we typically cannot recall specific experiences from that period -- a ...

Psychology is a scientific discipline ... which is crucial for memory consolidation, occurs rapidly during awake encoding intervals. These findings suggest that consolidation can occur dynamically ...