There are countless metaphors for memory. It’s a leaky bucket, a steel trap, a file cabinet, words written in sand. But one of the most evocative — and neuroscientifically descriptive — invokes Lego ...

We often think of memories like the contents of a museum: static exhibits that we view to understand the present and prepare ...

Why some classic books feel stranger with age, and why adults who once felt confident now struggle with what they missed., ...

Memories get classified in ways that seem at first blush straightforward. They can be short-term or long-term, semantic or episodic. Semantic memories consist of remembered facts not personally ...

When you get lost in a book, you often enter a trance-like state similar to meditation and that state is deeply protective.” ...

This Mother's Day, many of us will also be thinking about our grandmothers, great-grandmothers and ancestors. The connection between grandmother and grandchild is at the heart of "Memory Garden," ...

Reading is more than just a silent activity for kids; it is one of the best methods for developing the brain during childhood ...