In a world saturated with stories—from ancient myths to TikTok clips—narratives knit together emotion, memory, and meaning. A ...

Recent research suggests that repeated "replays" of episodic memories—i.e., memories of personal episodes from our past—can help improve our ability to visually distinguish between scenes, faces, and ...

The study of event perception and memory in everyday activities addresses how individuals transform the continuous stream of daily experience into compact, meaningful units. This process, often ...

From looping hallways to echoing stairwells, eerie architecture taps into ancient survival instincts—and exposes how our ...

A recent study published in Nature Neuroscience reports that retinotopic coding may determine how information from the retina is processed in the brain cortex. How does sensory signaling interact with ...

Our memories are rich in detail: we can vividly recall the color of our home, the layout of our kitchen, or the front of our favorite café. How the brain encodes this information has long puzzled ...

A new developmental theory from an Iowa State researcher describes how our memory and perception of trauma can evolve over time, shifting with new experiences and as cognitive and emotional ...

In Plato's allegory of the cave, a person stands inside a cavern with a fire at their back, watching the shadows formed by the fire on the wall. The person believes the shadows are their reality, not ...

What happens when a woman trying to forget her traumatic past falls in love with a man who isn't able to remember anything from his? The new film "Memory" explores our perception of the past and its ...

Researchers create a photochromic fluorescent system that performs optical neural computing and visual output in one step, ...