An elephant never forgets — or does it? Elephants are intelligent mammals that recall faces and places, but how much can they ...

A stage of sleep – reflected in the size of our pupils – is important to committing recent memories to the brain, which could ...

Long-term memory is information encoded in the brain on the time-scale of years. It consists of explicit (declarative) memories that are consciously reportable and depend heavily on the medial ...

Their findings suggest that long-term memories can form independently of short-term ones, and open a door to new ways of understanding memory-related conditions and disorders. Full details are ...

The stream of sensory information is stopped. This allows for the replay of past experiences without ‘outside interference’ ...

Slow-wave sleep plays a crucial role in strengthening memory by enhancing synaptic connections in the brain, with new ...

Scientists don't know exactly how sleep enhances memory, but it appears to involve the brain's hippocampus and neocortex – the part of the brain where long-term memories are stored. It is ...

The impressions of sensory experiences that survive in long-term memory enable people to accomplish the critical task of identification—of people (by their faces or the sounds of their voices ...