Episodic memory is a form of long-term memory that captures the details of past events that one has personally experienced. Along with semantic memory, it is considered a kind of explicit memory, ...

A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in retrieving different types of information, according to researchers from the School ...

Most everyday moments are quickly forgotten, while others stay with us for a lifetime. How the brain determines which ...

In a new study Indiana University researchers observed episodic memory in rats to a degree never documented before, suggesting that rats can serve as a model for complex cognitive processes often ...

Researchers have investigated the shared and unique neural processes that underlie different types of long-term memory: general semantic, personal semantic and episodic memory. Their study, published ...

A new study has found that some Antarctic tour guides left their dream jobs because they struggled to balance their love for ...

A computational model explains how place cells in the hippocampus can be recruited to form any kind of episodic memory, even when there's no spatial component. Nearly 50 years ago, neuroscientists ...

Midlife hypertension is associated with lower semantic memory scores among adults aged 90 years and older, according to population-weighted findings from a study published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia.