For almost a century, psychologists and neuroscientists have been trying to understand how humans memorize different types of information, ranging from knowledge or facts to the recollection of ...

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 ...

In this Perspective, I review data showing that different types of memory are not solely distinguishable on the basis of consciousness of encoding or retrieval. First, I discuss evidence that the ...