Discover why scents are the brain's most powerful memory triggers and how a single smell can bring back moments from 20+ ...

Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology have demonstrated that emotion enhances memory for contextual details, challenging the view that emotion impairs the ability to ...

Music that evokes an emotional response may influence the specificity of memory recall, new research suggests. Investigators found that participants who were shown a series of images of everyday items ...

Why does a comforting touch stay with us for years, while other sensations quickly fade from our minds? A new paper offers a novel answer, proposing the first comprehensive neurobiological model of ...

Why scents trigger the brain's strongest memories and how smell can instantly unlock vivid recall from 20+ years ago.

Emotional events tend to be vividly remembered. While growing evidence suggests that emotions have their basis in brain-wide network interactions, it is unclear whether and how these whole-brain ...

Stress influences what we learn and remember. The hormone cortisol, which is released during stressful situations, can make emotional memories in particular stronger. But how exactly does cortisol ...

Despite the vivid and convincing detail with which people can recollect emotional experiences from their past, emotional memory is malleable. As time passes, the memories of one’s best and worst ...

Scents have a unique link to memory-learn why smell triggers the strongest recall and how it can transport you back over 20 ...

New research by UCLA neuroscientists shows that listening to music after an experience or activity can make it more memorable if you have just the right amount of emotional response while listening to ...

Rewarding learning today can improve learning tomorrow; this is one of the conclusions reached by researchers from the Cognition and Brain Plasticity research group of the Institute of Biomedical ...