When you recall specific "when, where, and, who" details of a childhood memory, do you view the scene through your own eyes, or do you see yourself as a child through the lens of an outside observer?

Buildings bear witness to birth, death, and everything in between. They observe history through political upheaval, social reform, and countless changes in ownership and purpose. It is perhaps no ...

Where does memory live? Chance encounters with smells, songs or objects evoke forgotten, sometimes unimportant moments, even when meaningful ones have disappeared from our recollections. Memory ...

Forget what you think you know about — or should expect from — the cultural species known as “hotel art,” traditionally a close relative of “bank lobby” art. The Museum of Contemporary Art Santa ...

A team of researchers has demonstrated that the key to understanding working memory relies not only on what one is storing in memory, but also why. This is the 'working' part of working memory, which ...

Contrary to previous assumptions, visual short-term memory is not merely based on one kind of information about an object, such as only its colour or only its name. Rather, several types of ...