A new review explores how episodic memories are formed, stored, and reshaped over time, revealing why our recollections of past events often change.

A study from the University of East Anglia is helping scientists better understand how our brains remember past events—and how those memories can change over time.

Episodic memory is a type of long-term memory. It helps you remember the time, place, and details surrounding a specific event or experience in your life. For example, remembering what you had for ...

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Episodic memory is a form of long-term memory that captures the details of past events that one has personally experienced. Along with semantic memory, it is considered a kind of explicit memory, ...