If the brain isn't limited by memory space, why don't we remember everything? This is because the brain's memory system runs ...

There isn’t a meaningful limit to how much information the brain can store,”says Boston College psychology and neuroscience Professor Elizabeth Kensinger. Indeed, the brain’s memory system is not ...

An M.R.I. scan of a brain highlighting the posterior cingulate cortex. In a study, traumatic memories appeared to engage this area, which is usually involved in internally directed thought, like ...