Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Professor and neuroscientist Steve Ramirez, shown working with brain samples, is exploring the science of memory manipulation.

A researcher has secured nearly £1m in funding to investigate how memory is formed. Dr Binoy Paulose, Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Strathclyde, received a Leverhulme Research Leadership ...

Your age affects how your memory works Young children have both memory systems, but they develop at different rates. The capacity to form strong semantic memories comes first, while episodic memory ...

A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks. Researchers expected clear differences but instead found strong overlap ...

"Beyond studying whether motivation helps memory, we investigated how it shapes memory," said the study's first author, Assistant Professor Poh Jia-Hou, Center for Sleep and Cognition, NUS Medicine.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Scientists have found that memories are not static records but dynamic processes that change the brain’s wiring ...

Edith Cowan University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. You might say you have a “bad memory” because you don’t remember what cake you had at your last birthday party or the plot ...