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This study of a mnemonic technique found that highly effective memory is supported by “conjunctive” representations in the brain’s Default Mode Network, which reflects the unique, creative details use...

Human curiosity is dynamic, however the principles governing its fluctuations remain debated. Here, we test two competing hypotheses about how past...

MDRS is a professional society dedicated to the study of memory. Members engage in basic and clinical research into how memory works and why it fails.

Psychology researchers used virtual reality and MRI technology to better understand how locations help us encode memories.

Semantic false memories are traditionally more frequent from early list positions and thought to arise from presumed long-term memory stores whereas phonological false memories traditionally are more ...

How we experience an event may change how we remember it. Christopher Baldassano, associate professor of psychology at Columbia University, looks into our past experiences for clues. Christopher Balda...

We investigated how past and current caregiving experiences impacted emotional event processing by examining inter-subject functional correlation in 7- to 15-year-olds during narrative movies depictin...

MDRS is a professional society dedicated to the study of memory. Members engage in basic and clinical research into how memory works and why it fails.

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Humans lack memories for specific events from the first few years of life. We investigated the mechanistic basis of this infantile amnesia by scanning the brains of awake infants with functional magne...

Learning requires changing the brain. This typically occurs through experience, study, or instruction. We report an alternate route for humans to a...

Many experiences unfold predictably over time. Memory for these temporal regularities enables anticipation of events multiple steps into the future. Because tem...