In a new book, Steve Ramirez explores the potential of memory manipulation to ease depression and other afflictions.

In the world of Harry Potter, one’s memory can be manipulated with the flick of a wand. Albus Dumbledore reels wispy memories out of his head and puts them in a Pensieve. If he later dunks his head in ...

Copilot can now remember or forget details based on your command. Copilot's memories can be viewed in Settings > User memory. Greater memory comes with greater risk. Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant ...

Several studies have indicated that forgotten memories may not be as irretrievable as once thought. Memory appears to be closely tied to the context in which it was encoded. Consequently, remembering ...

Memory is the way your brain takes in and stores information so you can use it later on. Memories define who you are in a lot of ways. They help you recall things like important dates, facts, and even ...

Could science fiction become reality? In 2004’s “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” Jim Carrey’s character undergoes a memory-erasing procedure to forget his ex. But while the procedure seemed ...

“If we go back to the early 1900s, this is when the idea was first proposed that memories are physically stored in some location within the brain,” says Michael R. Williamson, a researcher at the ...

It’s no accident that people remember certain events in their lives because of music. Yiren Ren, a psychology researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology, and others published a new study that ...

A baby’s early life has a lot of milestones: first giggle, first tooth, first step. A brain scanning study adds to the list: first memory. Infants can form memories, and they use a memory structure in ...