People often find that memories linked to the same place or period come to mind together. Visiting a former workplace can prompt recall of events that had not been thought about for years, such as con...

This study examined how agentic decisions in the absence of explicit rewards influence memory organization. Participants studied lists of items to assign as gifts to two characters-either choosing freely (Choice group) or following instructions (Fixed group). During free recall, participants in the …

When freely recalling past events, individuals tend to successively remember stimuli that were studied close together in time—a phenomenon known as temporal clustering. Temporal clustering is thought ...

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...

This Special Focus of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience is dedicated to the research legacy of Dr. Sarah DuBrow. Sarah Dubrow passed away in February 2022 at the young age of 35 years, only 4 years after opening her own laboratory at the University of…