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

A new study published in Scientific Reports has found that older adults who talk more throughout their day tend to perform ...

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

MRI scans show that the brains of infants and toddlers can encode memories, even if we don’t remember them as adults ...

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

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

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

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

Viewing personal photos may enhance memory, reinforce identity, deepen recall, and spark vivid emotional connections to ...

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

Scientists have discovered why we don’t remember being a baby, despite learning so much in those early years of life. Researchers have long believed we don’t hold onto these experiences because the ...

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