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 ...

Researchers have discovered a new pathway to forming long-term memories in the brain. Their work suggests that long-term memory can form independently of short-term memory, a finding that opens ...

Your ability to recall the what, when, where, and how of a past experience comes from episodic memory, a type of long-term, explicit memory. Your memory allows you to retain information so you can use ...

Rather than holding information in specific areas of the brain, our memories are represented by the connections between neurons, called synapses. According to a recent study from the Salk Institute in ...

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Share on Pinterest New research links a typical Western diet to lasting memory issues. Cavan Images/Getty Images A new study in rats has found that a high-sugar, high fat diet, such as junk food or a ...

Our hippocampus is a complex brain structure deep in the temporal lobe that plays a major role in learning and memory. It is very plastic and very vulnerable. Hippocampal plasticity is demonstrated in ...

In the nascent field of AI hacking, indirect prompt injection has become a basic building block for inducing chatbots to exfiltrate sensitive data or perform other malicious actions. Developers of ...