Amid accusations of rape at Cornell University, a growing body of research is challenging assumptions about how victims remember details of their assaults.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Human memory is, at its core, an unreliable witness. More than 70 percent of all convictions of people who were exonerated with ...

Seen in a certain light, much of today’s education discourse is about memory. Our heated civics debates are arguments over how we want students to remember America’s founding and key events in our ...

"I did revise… it just didn't go in." Sound familiar? What about "I turned over the exam paper and my mind just went blank…" It's worrying to feel like everything you're doing to prepare for an exam ...

But there are ways to create the right conditions to make your studying as efficient as possible. My research into the science of memory shows that both novelty—new experiences—and familiarity can ...

Think about the last time you studied for an exam. You probably read your notes, went through textbooks, maybe even watched a few videos. Yet, when the paper was placed before you, your mind went ...

Memory is the process by which information and data is encoded, stored and retrieved. "What did I eat for breakfast this morning?" "Where did I leave my car keys?" "Who is buried in Grant’s Tomb?" ...

Cutting-Edge News: Sleep and Brain ScienceWhen does what we study become established as a memory?Is it the moment we learn ...

Madeleine Finlay hears from Steve Ramirez, an associate professor of psychological and brain sciences at Boston University, whose book How to Change a Memory was shortlisted for this year’s Royal ...