In Jorge Luis Borges' short story "Funes the Memorious," the protagonist is blessed - or cursed - with the seemingly uncanny ability to remember everything. For most people, however, memories rarely ...

Typically, the earliest adult memories of childhood start at about age 4. But scientists have wondered why not sooner. Is it ...

Sometimes the smallest childhood moments create the biggest memories. Here are tiny experiences people never forget.

Do you ever catch yourself drifting back to childhood memories—wishing you could bottle up certain sensations and ...

"Even though babies won’t remember these moments later in life, those early experiences shape how they understand the world ...

There was no streaming service or unlimited replays. Missing your show meant waiting an entire week to catch the next episode ...

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

Mice are one of the species that we know experience infantile amnesia. And, thanks to over a century of research on mice, we have some sophisticated genetic tools that allow us to explore what's ...

Summary: A new study shows that our brains physically link memories formed close together in time through changes in the dendrites of neurons, rather than in the cell bodies. Using advanced imaging in ...

whose research focuses on the development of memory in childhood, acknowledged that while many studies have already demonstrated infants’ capacity to encode memories, this latest research is ...

Scientists have long thought that babies can’t form experiential memories. Turns out, they can. Adults just can’t remember ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, Sigmund Freud coined the term infantile amnesia to describe this lack of early memories, attributing it to the repression of thoughts related to childhood ...