Her recall is so intense, it blurs the boundary between memory and lived reality.

Autobiographical memory encapsulates the personal recollections that shape an individual’s identity, providing a continuous narrative of one’s life. With advancing age, these memories often undergo ...

Never before have people recorded more information about their lives than today. But what does this mean for the way we remember our lives and how we talk about them? Researchers are trying to find ...

Emotional highs and lows and questions of who we are are a natural part of adolescence. During this transformative period, young people go through profound psychological changes that affect how they ...

Autobiographical memory refers to our ability to remember experiences that have shaped our lives since childhood. It consists of emotional and sensory memories of places, moments, and people, as well ...

A TEENAGE girl with an extraordinary memory can “time travel” to any day of her life and re-live it like an HD movie. The ...

The Fading Affect Bias (FAB) refers to the tendency for the emotional intensity associated with unpleasant autobiographical events to decay more rapidly over time than that linked to pleasant events.

In a study published in Neurocase this August, scientists at the Institut du Cerveau in Paris describe the extraordinary cognitive world of TL, a 17-year-old French student whose brain appears to be ...

In Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust marvels at how the taste of "plump little cakes called 'petites madeleines'" brought forth memories of Sunday mornings at Combray when he walked into to ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

Just a hundred years ago, most people had – at most – a few photos of themselves and their family. What a difference to today, when we can easily capture every important and unimportant moment – from ...