Last year, for my birthday, my wife gave me a copy of “I Remember,” an unusual memoir by the artist Joe Brainard. It’s a tidy little book, less than two hundred pages long, made entirely from short, ...

Having few childhood memories is common. As time passes, your brain has to free up space for new experiences. You’re also less likely to remember things if they had little emotional impact or if you ...

Ranganath is a Professor at the Center for Neuroscience and Department of Psychology and director of the Dynamic Memory Lab at the University of California at Davis. He is the author of the new book ...