How are emotions and memory connected? Memories do not always reflect the continuous flow of experiences. Everyday memories are woven into meaningful units or episodes. This system of event ...

The study of event perception and memory in everyday activities addresses how individuals transform the continuous stream of daily experience into compact, meaningful units. This process, often ...

Your ability to recall the what, when, where, and how of a past experience comes from episodic memory, a type of long-term, explicit memory. Your memory allows you to retain information so you can use ...

Episodic memory is a type of long-term memory. It helps you remember the time, place, and details surrounding a specific event or experience in your life. For example, remembering what you had for ...

A group of researchers has constructed an experiment to examine how emotional experiences affect the formation of memories. It’s already well-documented that emotional experiences are not only more ...

Have you ever forgotten a lunch date and stood up a good friend? This can be embarrassing and disconcerting, a potential sign that your memory just isn’t what it used to be. But, according to a new ...

William James, the father of American Psychology, famously speculated that when a newborn child has her first sensory experience with the world outside of her mother’s womb, it must be “a great ...

“A picture is worth a thousand words,” but sometimes, it means even more. It was around my birthday when we posted a photo of a father-daughter dance on Facebook, not expecting the profound impact ...