During an event, details like what you saw, smelled, and felt aren't stored as a single memory. Rather, they are encoded and stored in your brain separately. To retrieve that memory, those pieces must ...

Our memory, for all the good it does us, can also tell us lies. Thanks to the piecemeal way our brain stores memory information, aspects of our recollections can become jumbled as we reconstruct them, ...

The cuttlefish is known as an invertebrate that can remember and recall past events. A French research team has discovered that cuttlefish can also create 'false memories' when recalling information.

Memories are tricky and can comprise much more than our actual recollections. “I find it so interesting, but also scary, that we base our entire identity and what we think about our past on something ...

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