A global study reveals why songs from our teenage years leave a lasting emotional and mnemonic imprint on us. This research explores the neurodevelopmental mechanisms that make music from adolescence ...

Tell me about what you had for dinner last night. There are different ways you could fill in the details of that story. You could give perceptual descriptions of how your food looked and tasted. Or ...

A person’s storytelling can be so captivating that the details linger long after they’re told. What is it that makes these stories so memorable? Research suggests that the hippocampus plays a key role ...

In a world saturated with stories—from ancient myths to TikTok clips—narratives knit together emotion, memory, and meaning. A new study in the Journal of Neuroscience suggests that how a story is told ...

Coherence means forming a complete whole, with various aspects of memory connecting to each other.

Grief is a collision between the tenderness of loving what's gone, and the shame of showing that love in a world that mistrusts emotion. A few days ago I watched a documentary about a friend who was ...

A global study reveals that our most emotionally resonant music tends to come from our teenage years—typically peaking around age 17.

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They’re majestic and impossible to ignore — it’s no wonder elephants have inspired some of the most powerful advertising campaigns ever created. From WWF’s heartbreaking appeals to stop poaching, to ...

New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London has highlighted the important role that emotions play in the onset and persistence of ...

A digital illusion that shows adults their younger face helped them recall richer childhood memories, hinting at a deep link between body and memory.