As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people's powers of recollection, I'm often asked how ...

Some begin with a chuckle, a sigh or a simple “Back when I was your age …” The kind of story shared around the kitchen table, during a phone call or while waiting for an appointment. These aren’t ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Professor and neuroscientist Steve Ramirez, shown working with brain samples, is exploring the science of memory manipulation.

We tend to think of human memory as if it's one of those old steel filing cabinets: some information gets stashed inside, and when the time comes, we hope we can find it by flipping through the tabs ...

We often think of memories like the contents of a museum: static exhibits that we view to understand the present and prepare for the future. The latest research, however, suggests they are more like ...