Professor and neuroscientist Steve Ramirez, shown working with brain samples, is exploring the science of memory manipulation. (Alex Wenchel / National Geographic Society) We often think of memories ...

Human memory is amazing. Psychologists who study memory have subdivided it into several memory types. First, there is sensory memory, or memory for information coming into the brain via a sensory ...

In Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov reflects on his past with such vivid clarity that people and places seem suspended in time, untethered from specific moments. His recollections evoke the feeling ...

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.