Marilu Henner, who is living with highly superior autobiographical memory,  joins TODAY to talk about her memory documentary.

Autobiographical memory encapsulates the personal recollections that shape an individual’s identity, providing a continuous narrative of one’s life. With advancing age, these memories often undergo ...

New research provides evidence that the repetitive thoughts occupying a person’s mind can directly influence the spontaneous memories they experience later. This phenomenon, termed “preoccupation ...

Never before have people recorded more information about their lives than today. But what does this mean for the way we remember our lives and how we talk about them? Researchers are trying to find ...

Autobiographical memory refers to our ability to remember experiences that have shaped our lives since childhood. It consists of emotional and sensory memories of places, moments, and people, as well ...

Autobiographical memory impairment in borderline personality disorder: a quantitative meta-analysis interpreted in terms of the CaR-FA-X model. Journal of Personality Disorders, 33 (6), 818–831.

A new survey of Danish school children during the COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020 and 2021 shows how the formation of autobiographical memories was related to declines in mental health. (Getty Images) A ...

Several times a day, I can be washing dishes, just turning my head, or catching a particular angle ...

Our minds have a tendency to latch onto negative experiences more strongly than positive ones. While occasional negative thoughts are a common human experience, persistent ones can trap people in a ...

Emotional highs and lows and questions of who we are are a natural part of adolescence. During this transformative period, young people go through profound psychological changes that affect how they ...

Just a hundred years ago, most people had – at most – a few photos of themselves and their family. What a difference to today, when we can easily capture every important and unimportant moment – from ...