Episodic memory is a form of long-term memory that captures the details of past events that one has personally experienced. Along with semantic memory, it is considered a kind of explicit memory, ...
Do you feel like you have the memory of an elephant? Or, on the contrary, do you forget your neighbor's first name as soon as ...
Semantic memories consist of remembered facts not personally experienced, such as the date of someone’s birthday, while episodic ones are recalled from experience: the memory of a birthday party.
It's easy to forget important events like a work deadline or an anniversary, but understanding how memory works can help. Cognitive psychologist Endel Tulving introduced the idea of episodic and ...
Memory is more dynamic and changeable than previously thought, new research shows. Two important brain regions, the hippocampus and the neocortex, have different yet complementary roles in remembering ...
An ambitious attempt to link cognitive tests, functional brain imaging, and cell biological assays implicates a polymorphism in brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) as the source for highly ...
Psychological Science, the flagship journal of the Association for Psychological Science, is one of the premier journals in its field, with a citation ranking/impact factor that places it in the top ...