A recent study published in Applied Cognitive Psychology provides evidence that the types of false memories people form ...

Memory is not a recording device. It doesn't play back events like a video camera would. Instead, it's a remarkably active, ...

In Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov reflects on his past with such vivid clarity that people and places seem suspended in time, untethered from specific moments. His recollections evoke the feeling ...

New research from the University of Mississippi suggests that telling stories—from ancient campfire tales to modern-day digital communication—may be tied to how human memory evolved. It also could be ...

Psychology's fascination with memory and its imperfections dates back further than we can remember. The first careful experimental studies of memory were published in 1885 by German psychologist ...