In a world saturated with stories—from ancient myths to TikTok clips—narratives knit together emotion, memory, and meaning. A new study in the Journal of Neuroscience suggests that how a story is told ...

Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology demonstrated that emotion enhances memory for contextual details, challenging the view that emotion impairs the ability to ...

Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology demonstrated that emotion enhances memory for contextual details, challenging the view that emotion impairs the ability to ...

Stress influences what we learn and remember. The hormone cortisol, which is released during stressful situations, can make emotional memories in particular stronger. But how exactly does cortisol ...

Why scents trigger the brain’s strongest memories and how smell can instantly unlock vivid recall from 20+ years ago.

"It is a poor sort of memory that only works backward.”—Lewis Caroll’s The Red Queen Memory and imagination may be two sides of the same coin. Both our memories and imaginations recreate images of the ...

Have you ever looked at an abstract painting and wondered what the artist was thinking? A splash of color on a canvas can ...