Remembering past events in minute detail, revisiting them methodically, and reliving past emotions—this is the peculiarity of people with an exceptional memory of their own lives, known as ...

The study participants then recalled autobiographical events while images of their brains were recorded using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). "This showed that the hippocampus, which ...

Just 100 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 our child's ...

Do you remember what you had for dinner two years ago today? What about two weeks ago? Most of us don’t have a clue. But a small number of people, including a California woman named Jill Price, can ...

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 ...

Karl Ove Knausgaard and Elena Ferrante are making a huge success of it, but telling one’s own story in fiction is far from straightforward It should be so easy. Things happen to you. They seem like ...