The standard view held that episodic memory, the ability to mentally replay a specific past event, not just respond to a learned cue, was uniquely human. Then came a 1998 study by Nicola Clayton and ...

We often assume that memory belongs mainly to humans. That remembering faces, feelings, moments and bonds over years is a uniquely human gift. But nature quietly tells a different story. Across ...

Summary: A new mathematical model reveals why different animals evolve different learning rates and memory capacities. The research, conducted by scientists at the Complexity Science Hub and Santa Fe ...

Of all the animals on the planet, humans have by far the highest ability to recall past events, referred to as memory. However, that doesn’t mean that other animals’ memories are poor, just not as ...

Indiana University neuroscientists have found the first evidence that rodents can call upon their episodic memory—the ability to recall seemingly unimportant streams of events from the past—and use ...

What has puzzled researchers and philosophers for many centuries is the ‘why’ of sleep, along with the ‘how’. We human animals know from experience that we need to sleep, and that the longer we go ...

Memory plays a vital role in the wild for animals and as it turns out, wild bats have better memories than previously thought. They say that elephants never forget, but what about other animals? A ...

Some animals never forget—and not just in that folksy, "elephants remember everything" way. Across land, sea, and sky, particular creatures are absolute memory machines, storing details that would put ...