A post by Joshua Myers and Johannes Mahr. Imagination and episodic memory are intimately linked. Imagination draws on previous experience—when picturing yourself on a beach in Portugal sipping mango ...

Everyone loves a good evolutionary puzzle. Why do we have appendices? Why do we dream? Why do we blush? At first glance, memory would not seem to be in this category. It's clearly useful to remember s...

As a child, I was torn from a culture that I never knew. It is a loss that defines me, even as I struggle to define the loss