New research is challenging longstanding beliefs about why we don't retain the memories we form in early life.

Yale study shows infants' brains can form memories earlier than thought, challenging long-held beliefs about infantile ...

Novel fMRI study challenges infant memory assumptions, suggesting infantile amnesia is due to retrieval failures, not memory ...

As people age, their episodic memory — the ability to remember past events and experiences — tends to wane, but their ...

The hippocampal formation is a group of brain regions, including the hippocampus and some other structures closely connected ...

Though we learn so much during our first years of life, we can't, as adults, remember specific events from that time.

Despite infancy being a period of rapid learning, memories from this time, do not persist into later childhood or adulthood.

Our earliest years are a time of rapid learning, yet we typically cannot recall specific experiences from that period—a ...

A new study shows that among various cognitive abilities, verbal fluency is uniquely linked to longer life in older adults.

Concepts encoded by concept neurons can be an animal, an article of clothing, a place, or a person. The concept can be evoked ...