Memory for single, specific events can strongly influence our attitudes and behaviors — many years after the occurrence of these events. We draw powerful lessons from individual memories that then ...

One doesn't learn something until one has to. Here is what we have learned over the last three years while caring for a parent with declining memory.

Some researchers suggest these are not distinct types of memory, but rather stages of memory. In this view, memory begins in sensory memory, transitions to short-term memory, and then may move to long ...

Ian McEwan begins “Lessons,” his 17th published novel, with the “insomniac memory” of a piano lesson. Eleven-year-old Roland Baines sits at the keyboard in an Ipswich boarding school where his father, ...

Growing up, my mother would tell me to “stand up straight!” Doing so required concentration and repetition and took some getting used to. In time, though, I’d engrained the specific motor tasks of ...

A city school is launching a swimming project in memory of a teenager who died after getting into difficulty at a lake. Peterborough's Hampton Vale Primary Academy plans to install a portable pop-up ...

TOWN OF BURLINGTON — Eve Dahl’s bones may break without her having sustained an injury, even when the 7-year-old simply stands up. It’s not unusual for the City of Burlington girl, who has brittle ...

A partnership between Summit Middle School and the Silverthorne Recreation Center is helping Summit County children learn to swim. The program, which is funded through the Jefte Flores memorial fund, ...