Psychology suggests that people who struggle to remember routes are not born with ‘GPS brain’. Fortunately, navigation is a ...

Humans are known to rapidly adapt their mental processes and behavior based on feedback they receive from the world around them. For instance, some past studies have shown that people progressively ...

Nearly 50 years ago, neuroscientists discovered cells within the brain's hippocampus that store memories of specific locations. These cells also play an important role in storing memories of events, ...

Researchers have joined forces to give a boost to spatial memory by creating a unique experimental setup that combines non-invasive deep-brain stimulation, virtual reality training, and fMRI imaging.

Usually, forgetting where you put your coffee cup down doesn’t have a major impact on the rest of your life – you can easily retrieve another cup of coffee (and find the other one later, in a cabinet ...

"It is a poor sort of memory that only works backward.”—Lewis Caroll’s The Red Queen Memory and imagination may be two sides of the same coin. Both our memories and imaginations recreate images of the ...