From the University of Alberta press release: Adopting a third-person, observer point of view when recalling your past activates different parts of your brain than recalling a memory seen through your own eyes, according to…
From the Washington University in St. Louis press release: “Memory is the first thing to go.” Everyone has heard it, and decades of research studies seem to confirm it: While it may not always be…
From the Columbia University Irving Medical Center press release: Memories linked with strong emotions often become seared in the brain. Most people can remember where they were on 9/11, or what the weather was like…
From the University of Arizona press release: By the time people reach a certain age, they’ve accumulated enough life experience to have plenty of stories to tell about life “back in their day.” However, a…
From the NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke press release: Thousands of words, big and small, are crammed inside our memory banks just waiting to be swiftly withdrawn and strung into sentences. In a…
From the University of California – Riverside press release: Whether you decided to engage in social distancing in the early stages of COVID-19 depended on how much information your working memory could hold. This is…
From the Université de Genève press release: How does our memory work and how can we optimize its mechanisms on a daily basis? This question is at the heart of many neuroscience research projects. Among…
From the NIH/National Institute on Aging press release: Combining more healthy lifestyle behaviors was associated with substantially lower risk for Alzheimer’s disease in a study that included data from nearly 3,000 research participants. Those who…
From the California Institute of Technology press release: Most of us know that feeling of trying to retrieve a memory that does not come right away. You might be watching a romantic comedy featuring that…
From the University of York press release: You emerge from the supermarket, struggling under the weight of the extra wine and chocolate biscuits you’ve bought to get through lockdown, and then… you draw a total…