Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. False memories are more than just misremembering someone's name. T-shirt tycoons Fruit of the Loom are both makers of functional, ...

It’s easy enough to explain why we remember things: multiple regions of the brain — particularly the hippocampus — are devoted to the job. It’s easy to understand why we forget stuff too: there’s only ...

Memory shapes us. Our beliefs, thoughts, fears, rationalities – all are shaped by our past experiences in the form of memory. Memories anchor us to the past and help us make sense of the present.

How much can we trust our memories? We know that our mind keeps an imperfect record of the past. We can forget or misremember details, with frustrating consequences. Our attention can be diverted in ...

Memories get classified in ways that seem at first blush straightforward. They can be short-term or long-term, semantic or episodic. Semantic memories consist of remembered facts not personally ...

This post is a review of Memory Lane: The Perfect Imperfect Ways We Remember. By Ciara Greene & Gillian Murphy. Princeton University Press. 232 pp. $29.95. Many people believe that their memories ...