New UK research challenges some scientists' fundamental assumptions about how memory works, relying on the entire brain.

A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks.

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A sense of self-awareness is strongly involved in episodic memory. It’s the feeling of personally remembering.

Memory can be broken down into multiple types, including long-term memory, short-term memory, explicit and implicit memory, and working memory. Memory is a process in your brain that enables you to ...

A research team identified the brain's food-specific memory system and its direct role in overeating and diet-induced obesity. They found a specific population of neurons in the mouse brain that ...

Memory actually takes many different forms. We know that when we store a memory, we are storing information. But, what that information is and how long we retain it determines what type of memory it ...