Researchers describe biological mechanism that allows sleep to build relational memories -- associations between unrelated items. Relational memory is the ability to remember arbitrary or indirect ...

Deficits in the part of memory that forms contextual relationships between individual items in daily life appear to be common in the early stages of psychosis. Deficits in relational memory — the part ...

Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology demonstrated that emotion enhances memory for contextual details, challenging the view that emotion impairs the ability to ...

Sensory memories are stored for a few seconds at most. They come from the five senses: hearing, vision, touch, smell, and taste. They are stored only for as long as the sense is being stimulated. They ...

Relational memory is the ability to remember arbitrary or indirect associations between objects, people or events, such as names with faces, where you left your car keys and whether you turned off the ...