Memory for single, specific events can strongly influence our attitudes and behaviors — many years after the occurrence of these events. We draw powerful lessons from individual memories that then ...

Edith Cowan University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. 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 ...

Institutional memory is more than archives and more than nostalgia. It is the collection of lessons that prevents an ...

Some researchers suggest these are not distinct types of memory, but rather stages of memory. In this view, memory begins in sensory memory, transitions to short-term memory, and then may move to long ...

As a doctor of the “oldest old,” those patients over 85, San Antonio, Tex., geriatric physician Winakur cares for the “fastest growing demographic segment of our society.” He also had to usher his own ...