Millions of Americans remember that morning as a "flashbulb memory," the vivid and total recall of a stressful, emotional and often historic event. But psychologists are increasingly certain that ...

The term alludes to the experience that these events are seared into memory as if they were flash photos. Researchers typically conduct studies on flashbulb memories as follows: Immediately after ...

But Mitchell suspects gradual declines in flashbulb and event memory retention would have continued. "If you're asking me personally what I would expect, I think forgetting would continue at a ...

You’ll probably remember exactly where you were and what you were doing when you first learned that passenger jets had crashed into the World Trade Center. People tend to form exceptionally ...