New UK research challenges some scientists' fundamental assumptions about how memory works, relying on the entire brain.

Episodic memory is a type of long-term memory. It helps you remember the time, place, and details surrounding a specific event or experience in your life. For example, remembering what you had for ...

Your ability to recall the what, when, where, and how of a past experience comes from episodic memory, a type of long-term, explicit memory. Your memory allows you to retain information so you can use ...

A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks.

A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in ...

You might say you have a "bad memory" because you don't remember what cake you had at your last birthday party or the plot of a movie you watched last month. On the other hand, you might precisely ...

A new study challenges the long-standing belief that episodic and semantic memory rely on distinct brain systems.

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Recalling vivid past events, like a first day at school or a significant childhood conversation, signals robust memory ...

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, ...