A neuroimaging study in Italy found that autobiographical memories are represented across the hippocampus and interconnected ...

Using smartphone-based tools, researchers find that older adults’ recollections of past events may remain more intact than ...

A recent case study provides evidence that an extraordinarily rare memory condition, known as highly superior ...

Autobiographical memory encompasses the recollection of personal experiences and the reconstruction of past events within a coherent narrative of the self. This process recruits a distributed network ...

Autobiographical memory refers to the capacity to recall personally experienced events, integrating sensory details, emotions and temporal context. It relies on episodic memory processes supported by ...

In 2006, Parker, Cahill and McGaugh reported the first known case of Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM) in a research participant known as “AJ”. When provided with a date, AJ could specify ...

Remembering past events in minute detail, revisiting them methodically, and reliving past emotions—this is the peculiarity of people with an exceptional memory of their own lives, known as ...

Hollywood loves a superpower. Not all involve capes or cosmic rays. Some are cognitive: characters who can remember ...

Just a hundred years ago, most people had – at most – a few photos of themselves and their family. What a difference to today, when we can easily capture every important and unimportant moment – from ...

Of all forms of memory, episodic memory is the most intimate. We recall the sequences of events that happen to us—a marriage, a visit to a foreign country, a personal achievement—in great ...