It’s the kind of study science fiction dreams are made of: A team of neurobiologists at UCLA “transplanted” a memory from the nervous system of one snail into another. In order to do this ...

If you think Mr. Monopoly wears a monocle or believe you’ve read “The Berenstein Bears” books, you might be experiencing the so-called Mandela Effect, or collective false memory.

It's all starting to take shape A “memory prosthesis” brain implant has enhanced human memory for the first time. The device is comprised of electrodes implanted in the brain, and is designed ...

New research reveals that human memory may prioritize people and places over context, offering insight into how our brains achieve flexible, enduring recall.

A new book proposes that human memory is like a Lego tower, built from the ground up, broken down, put away and rebuilt each time it’s called to mind. LeventKonuk/iStock Editorial/Getty Images Plus.

Astrocyte nerve cells make a wealth of connections What would Stuart Little make of it? Mice have been created whose brains are half human. As a result, the animals are smarter than their siblings.

Human memory happens in many parts of the brain at once, and some types of memories stick around longer than others. An engineer wears a helmet of sensors, part of a brain scanner, ...

Making a memory champion. In a first part of the study, the researchers took the 17 memory champions and a control group of untrained people and had them all try to recall a list of 72 words.

The human memory system is seated in the medial temporal lobe (MTL). Broadly, it contains the hippocampus, parahippocampal cortex, perirhinal cortex, and entorhinal cortex.