Richard Addante, who has spent more than a decade researching episodic memory—the cognitive process that involves processing and retrieving long-term memory—has identified a new kind of human memory ...

Resembling a seahorse, as its name implies from the Greek words "hippos" (horse) and "kampus" (sea monster), the hippocampus is a brain region crucial for memory formation. But until recently, ...

Many people have had the experience of smelling something — maybe a perfume or food — that triggers a memory, often from early childhood. Venki Murthy, a neuroscientist and director of the Center for ...

In this figure, an intestinal immune cell detects medium-chain fatty acids produced by aging gut bacteria through the GPR84 receptor, releasing inflammatory molecules that block signaling along the ...

The Atkinson-Shiffrin model of memory potentially explains how memories get stored, processed, and retrieved. Though newer models exist, aspects of the model remain relevant to the study of memory.

Explicit memory is a type of long-term memory used to recall conscious thoughts about personal life, public events, and things you learned along the way. Share on Pinterest Westend61/Getty Images ...

A recurring theme here at the Stress on the Brain blog is that stress is not as bad as we think it is. This post continues with this theme by focusing on the sometimes-beneficial effects of stress on ...