Traditionally, explicit long-term memory (the intentional, conscious recollection of things and experiences) is divided into ...

A sense of self-awareness is strongly involved in episodic memory. It’s the feeling of personally remembering.

A new study challenges the long-standing belief that episodic and semantic memory rely on distinct brain systems.

How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

Semantic memory is a form of long-term memory that comprises a person’s knowledge about the world. Along with episodic memory, it is considered a kind of explicit memory, because a person is ...

A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in retrieving different types of information, the findings could redefine how memory ...