The widespread belief that a person’s memory deteriorates as one approaches old age is not completely true as researchers have now found that while the capacity to recall specific facts deteriorates ...

Your ability to recall the what, when, where, and how of a past experience comes from episodic memory, a type of long-term, explicit memory. Your memory allows you to retain information so you can use ...

Semantic memory refers to a portion of long-term memory that processes ideas and concepts that are not drawn from personal experience. Semantic memory includes things that are common knowledge, such ...

Memory is a complex and marvellous system of the brain that underpins how you learn, what you know about yourself and the world around you, even how you move. Understanding memory is fundamental to ...

Memory is the process of absorbing information around us, processing it, storing it and then later recalling and retrieving that information. Our ability to remember and to recall our past is what ...

Our personalities are strongly formed by memories. Among the most significant may be those whose details have faded.

When discussing memory systems, it seems the most common point made is regarding the difference between short- and long-term memory. It seems pretty well-known that short-term memory operates over a ...

Figure 1: The declarative versus nondeclarative memory account. In this Perspective, I review data showing that different types of memory are not solely distinguishable on the basis of consciousness ...