Why does your brain mix up memories? A new study examines how memories are misplaced in your brain’s filing cabinets
Memories become less precise, not entirely forgotten, as people age. New research attempts to explain why: the hippocampus inappropriately changes memories between different memory phases as people get older.
READ NEXT
More on the wire
FROM THE PUBLISHER
The Philadelphia Eagles will take on the Tennessee Titans at 1:00 on Sunday. That matchup aside, here we'll lay out a rooting guide for non-Eagles games on the NFL schedule for those of you on the fence while watching the other action around the league. Last week, the Eagles got a number of ideal results around the NFL, most notably losses by the Cowboys and Rams.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
My daughter was collateral damage in an ongoing war for ever-higher enrollment numbers and was let down by an on-campus support system that has been weakened by extreme budget cuts.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Maps can anchor us in a place or help us get somewhere else