FARGO – Many of you have probably experienced it before. You find an old box of photos and slides. The photos are easy. They might be musty, faded or damaged, but you can still probably make out the ...

Dear Eric: I met an interesting man recently and agreed to a date, and within a few minutes of the start of it we realized we had grown up in the same town and already knew each other. I was younger ...

Neuroscientists have discovered that when someone recalls an old memory, a representation of the entire event is instantaneously reactivated in the brain that often includes the people, location, ...

Eric Hoover’s insightful essay “In the Land of Tests, the ‘Exam Dream’ Comes in Many Guises” (The Chronicle, February 27) triggered an old memory. In my freshman year at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

Your pupils say a lot about you - about your mental state, your attention span, your arousal, and your intelligence. Somewhat surprisingly, they also say a lot about your memories. According to recent ...