Why does memory fade? Why does it stay? These questions, among others, occupy the mind of Charan Ranganath, a UC Davis psychology professor in the UC Davis College of Letters and Science and a core ...

How many times today have you walked into a room and forgotten why you were there? It happens to all of us, said Charan Ranganath, and it’s perfectly normal. Ranganath is a professor and memory ...

UC Davis professor Charan Ranganath collects brain-imaging data with two MRI machines at UC Davis’ Sacramento campus and Center for Neuroscience as part of a project to create humanlike artificial ...

UC Davis neuroscientists were able to able to identify a signal associated with a rewarding memory, in this case related to a photo of a basketball court. Credit: Charan Ranganath Volunteers did ...

A simple memory trick has helped show UC Davis researchers how an area of the brain called the perirhinal cortex can contribute to forming memories. The finding expands our understanding of how those ...

Charan Ranganath recently wrote an op-ed about President Biden's memory gaffes. He says forgetting is a normal part of aging. His new book is Why... When is forgetting normal — and when is it ...

Researchers found that the levels of brain activity before items came up were correlated with memory. Lost your keys? Your brain might be in a better state to recall where you put them at some times ...

(CNN) — Most of us are familiar with the frustration of forgetting — whether it’s struggling with a word on the tip of the tongue, misplacing important items such as keys or glasses, or even ...

“Why drag about this corpse of your memory,” Emerson offered in “Self-Reliance.” It was an invitation to let go of past beliefs and things once said aloud — indeed, former versions of ourselves — for ...

Before I left the house this morning, I let the cat out and started the dishwasher. Or was that yesterday? Very often, our memories must distinguish not just what happened and where, but when an event ...

An audio clip from the Apollo 11 launch plays amid static. “Ignition sequence start,” a voice says. “Six, five, four, three…” As the countdown continues, the feedback swells in the background, as if ...