Actively suppressing negative experiences may help prevent intrusive thoughts and rumination. The corresponding study was published in eLife. Unwanted memories can be triggered by harmless objects ...

Although infants use their memories to learn new information, few adults can remember events in their lives that happened prior to the age of three. Psychologists have now documented that age seven is ...

Chestnut Hill, Mass. (4/5/2019) - Like old photographs, memories fade in quality over time - a surprising finding for a team of Boston College researchers who expected recollections would become less ...

This work suggests that memories might fade more rapidly as we age because a memory is encoded by fewer neurons, and if any of these neurons fail, the memory is lost. The study suggests that one day, ...

An electrical shock to the brain can muddle a nasty memory. Precisely timed electroconvulsive therapy, a last-ditch treatment for severe depression, interferes with a person’s ability to remember a ...

“We’ll always have Paris.” Or will we? A new study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology indicates that hoping for lifelong memories of a happy time might only be wishful ...

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Researchers have identified the neural processes that make some memories fade rapidly while other memories persist over time. Why is it that you can remember the name of your childhood best friend ...