Before they enter a classroom, people learn to identify commonplace objects like a “dog” and a “chair” just by encountering them in life.

During sleep, we commonly experience two types of sleep phases, alternating one after the other: non-REM sleep and REM sleep.

Scientists report certain people who feel lonely over a sustained period of time may experience elevated decline in verbal memory skills.

Episodic memory is the kind that deals with events that happened to you in the past. It’s also one of the first to decline with age.

A new study has found that greater body fat is a risk factor for reduced cognitive function, such as processing speed, in adults.

Research shows for the first time that in natural vision, visual memory of images is affected by the size of the image on the retina.

Counter to the general assumption that memories simply decay with time, ‘forgetting’ might not be a bad thing, according to scientists.

It turns out that human memory can be edited on the fly, creating memories that are nowhere near set in stone.

Scientists have spent decades searching for faster, more energy-efficient memory technologies for everything from data centers to mobile.

The idea of using multiple switching in a single element draws inspiration from how the brain works and fundamentally reimagines the design

A team of scientists has uncovered a system in the brain used in the processing of information and in the storing of memories

Many of us have experienced the following: the day before an exam, we try to cram a huge amount of information into our brain.

UC Davis research suggests earworms, songs that get stuck in your head, help to preserve memory for music and life events.

What information is retained in a memory over time, and which parts get lost? These questions have led to many scientific theories