Episodic memory is a form of long-term memory that captures the details of past events that one has personally experienced. Along with semantic memory, it is considered a kind of explicit memory, ...

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A new fMRI study found that the brain activity produced when a person recalls a memorized fact and when that same person relives a personal experience is nearly indistinguishable at the network level.

A recent study demonstrated that non-invasive stimulation of the right cerebellum led to improvements in episodic memory performance in healthy elderly individuals, at the end of a 12-day ...

Lapses in memory are a normal part of ageing but can also be signs of dementia. Here’s how to distinguish between typical ...

Researchers have investigated the shared and unique neural processes that underlie different types of long-term memory: general semantic, personal semantic and episodic memory. Long-term memory can be ...

Episodic memory retrieval involves the conscious re-experiencing of past events, drawing on a distributed network that centres on the hippocampus and extends into parietal and prefrontal cortices. The ...

The ability to form episodic memories declines with age, certain dementias, and brain injury. However, a new study shows that low frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation delivered over ...

Episodic memory provides the continuous narrative of our lives from the past to the present. When memory begins to fail, the very fabric of our existence unravels. Disorders of memory, including ...

A study from the University of East Anglia is helping scientists better understand how our brains remember past events - and how those memories can change over time. A new paper published today ...