“People have an absolute terror of losing their memory and thinking they're losing themselves,” says Lesley, who works at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photographer, Basak Gurbuz Derman via Getty Images Getting older goes hand in hand with forgetfulness — like not remembering the ...

One of the most actively debated questions about human and non-human culture is this: under what circumstances might we expect culture, in particular the ability to learn from one another, to be ...

Memory researcher Dr. Scott Small would like to reassure you that you’re not losing your wits. Visit him in his lab at Columbia University’s Medical Center, tell him how the last time you went to a ...

The human capacity to forget is not merely a failure of memory but a fundamental adaptive mechanism. Memory suppression and intentional forgetting involve the active inhibition of unwanted or ...

The night after my high school graduation, most of my classmates hit the bars to get drunk. Rather than join them, I picked a tamer celebration, assuming that I would be less likely to get into ...