When a psychology researcher discovered her sharp-minded grandmother told the same wedding story with fresh enthusiasm to each new listener, she realized the painful truth: repetition isn't about ...

This is where memory is essential to identity formation. The self is assembled not from everything that has happened to us, but from what the brain has chosen to preserve and retrieve.

The traditional model of memory proposes that different types of long term memory are processed in separate brain modules.

Adaptive memory refers to the evolved capacity of human memory systems to preferentially encode and retain information that is pertinent to survival. This phenomenon, known as survival processing, has ...