In a series of experiments, researchers tested people’s ability to remember where and when they saw an object—spatial and temporal memory—and found both forms of memory to be massive “People often ...

Multiple studies have demonstrated the memory-enhancing effects of melatonin and its derivatives in animal models. It is also known that the formation of both short- and long-term memories require the ...

Researchers have discovered a new type of neuron that plays a fundamental role in recognition memory -- how the brain registers the difference between new and familiar objects and forms long-term ...

The philosopher John Locke argued that memory is a necessary condition of identity. The objects in Francesca Fuchs’ paintings are hazy, as though hidden behind a veil. These objects are imbued with ...

What objects in our museums — and in our lives — do we most value? That’s what filmmaker Jonathan Fein will help discern this “Third Thursday” at Philbrook Museum of Art. Using never-before-broadcast ...

Introduction: memory and agency in ancient China: shaping the life histories of objects / Francis Allard, Yan Sun and Katheryn M. Linduff -- Memory, amnesia and the formation of identity symbols in ...

What happens in the aftermath of a sudden, shocking, man-made disaster like the terrorist bombings of Oklahoma City’s Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, and New York City’s World ...