Memory Disorders Research Center, Boston University, USA  Our researchers use behavioral and neuroimaging techniques to examine a wide variety of memory functions. The research includes memory disorders secondary to Korsakoff’s syndrome, anoxia, tumor, aneurysm, stroke, encephalitis, head injury, and alcohol abuse.

York Episodic Memory Lab, University of York, UK.   Memory is a fundamental process that allows us to make sensible predictions about what might happen in the future based on past experience. Put simply, it stops us repeating our mistakes. We are interested in how the brain remembers past events and how this shapes behaviour in the present. We use experimental psychology, virtual reality, computational modelling, and brain imaging to understand these processes in the healthy human brain. We also test patients with memory deficits to understand how these processes can become impaired.

Center on Autobiographical Memory Research – CON AMORE, Aarchus University, Denmark   Our goal is to develop a center which tries to integrate many different aspects of autobiographical memory research, including basic autobiographical memory research with adults, development of autobiographical memory from infancy to young adulthood and dysfunctional aspects of autobiographical memory, such as in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and amnesia.

The Picower Institute for Learning & Memory, MIT, USA  It focuses the talents of a diverse array of brain scientists on a single mission: unraveling the mechanisms that drive the quintessentially human capacity to remember and to learn, as well as related functions like perception, attention and consciousness.

Memory Research Laboratory, University of Chicago, USA  Our research is aimed at the scientific understanding of human memory and its relationship to other psychological processes.  Memory is not a single “thing” – there are different types of memories, and they can rely on different brain mechanisms.  Understanding these different components is essential for identifying the conditions where memory can be misleading, for developing tasks that can lead to early detection of cognitive disorders, and for evaluating possible methods of improving memory and quality of life.  There is a long-standing tradition for applying memory research to important societal issues, such as eyewitness testimony, education, brain disorders, and drugs/mnemonics that might improve memory. 

Memory Research Laboratory, UCSanDiego, USA  Our interest is in the organization and structure of mammalian memory (humans and rodents) in terms of anatomy and function at the level of neural systems and cognition. Our research draws on the traditions of neuroscience, neuropsychology, and cognitive science.

Human Memory Research Group, Dept of Psychology, City University London, UK  Human Memory is a vast and fascinating field of study. The research interests of our members cover a wide range of current topics, including knowledge and semantic memory, autobiographical memory, false memory (including ageing), immediate memory and the interaction between memory systems. Therefore, the research of the Human Memory Group covers both basic and applied areas and our work examines memory across the lifespan in both normal and abnormal populations.

Memory Lab, Dept of Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis, USA  The Washington University in St. Louis Memory Lab conducts human learning and memory research. Although we are interested in many different topics in this broad area, our current research is primarily concerned with three issues: Applying Cognitive Psychology to Enhance Educational Practice. Memory Illusions and False Memories. Dissociations Between Implicit and Explicit Measures of Retention. 

Yassa Lab, Translational Neurobiology Laboratory, UCIrvine, USA   The Translational Neurobiology Laboratory (PI: Mike Yassa) is interested in understanding how brains can store and retrieve massive amounts of information and in using this knowledge to improve the human condition. We use cutting-edge human neuroscience tools to understand learning and memory in healthy and diseased brains. In particular, we are trying to uncover ways in which our memory abilities change throughout the lifespan from childhood to older adulthood. We are also trying to develop ways to diagnose and treat memory disorders present in patients with progressive diseases like Alzheimer’s disease or mood disorders like depression. More recently, we have begun to explore the impact of lifestyle factors like sleep, diet, and exercise on memory and cognition. Our toolkit is dynamic and diverse. It includes cross-species brain imaging as well electrical recordings from the brains of epilepsy patients before they undergo neurological surgery. We develop and refine cognitive assessment tools that specifically target learning and memory functions, with the goal of developing improved diagnostic and prognostic tests that we can use in community mental health settings. We also design new tools for imaging and recording brain function to explore its architecture at very fine levels of detail. We collaborate vigorously and widely with investigators across the globe and provide support with open tool development and data banks to facilitate discovery science.

Stark Lab, Neurobiology & Behavior, UCIrvine, USA   Here in the Stark Memory Research Group, we are interested in the mechanisms that underlie memory.  We approach this question utilizing several different techniques, populations of individuals, focusing on a variety of mechanisms and how they interact. Understanding memory is a lofty goal. If we can contribute a drop of information to the world’s knowledge of the most complex system in the world, the brain, then we have succeeded.

Memory Lab, The University of Auckland, New Zealand   The Memory Lab combines neuroimaging, behavioural and neuropsychological methods to investigate how we learn new information, how we remember past experiences, and how we use memory to simulate future events and construct a sense of identity.

Human Memory Lab, UCDavis, USA  The Human Memory Lab examines the cognitive and brain processes underlying human memory. In order to characterize the functional nature of different memory processes, we use implicit and explicit tests as well as several ‘second generation’ procedures such as the process dissociation, independence remember/know, ROC modeling, and structural equation modeling methods.

Stanford Memory Laboratory, Stanford University, USA  Broadly, the objective of the research in the Stanford Memory Laboratory is to understand how memory is organized and supported by the mind and brain. A particular emphasis is placed on understanding the interaction between cognitive control and long-term memory, as well as on delineating the nature of “cross-talk” between different forms of memory (e.g., interactions between declarative and nondeclarative processes). In the course of these efforts, we further aim to characterize the functional contributions of prefrontal and medial temporal regions to learning and remembering.

Memory & Cognition Lab, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA   Our research centers on speech comprehension and memory for speech, with a particular focus on changes associated with healthy aging.

Computational Memory Lab, University of Pennsylvania, USA  Our research is focused on neurocomputational mechanisms of human episodic and spatial memory. Episodic memory refers to memory for events that are embedded in a temporal context. This includes both memory for significant life events and memory for common daily activities. In the laboratory, episodic memory is investigated by presenting lists of words for study, and then asking participants to recall the words. Using conditional probability and latency analyses (Kahana, M. J., 1996) one can quantify the way in which people transition from one recalled word to the next. Furthermore, by studying the electrophysiology of the brain while engaged in memory tasks (as in Sederberg et al., 2007), we can find, for example, regions that show increased or decreased activity when a word is successfully encoded (i.e., later recalled) versus when it is not successfully encoded, known as the subsequent memory effect.

Memory & Neuroscience Lab, Cornell University, USA  The Memory and Neuroscience Lab, directed by Charles Brainerd, conducts mainstream, theory-driven experimentation with adult populations and developmental investigations with child, healthy elderly, and impaired populations.

Memory Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK  Based at the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, our research investigates the role of brain regions such as the frontal, medial temporal, and parietal lobes in human memory. This work involves inter-relating cognitive hypotheses with evidence from functional neuroimaging of healthy volunteers and from examining the effects of neurological and psychiatric disorders, and normal aging, on memory abilities. Research in the laboratory uses a number of methods, including behavioural studies, functional neuroimaging (fMRI), electrophysiology (EEG/MEG), and brain stimulation (TMS/tDCS).

The Memory & Cognition Lab, Yale University, USA  The Johnson Lab studies human memory and considers such issues as the component processes of reflection and consciousness, mechanisms of veridical and distorted memory, memory disorders (resulting from amnesia, frontal brain damage, aging), and the relation between emotion and cognition.

Center for Learning & Memory, The University of Texas @ Austin, USA  The Center for Learning and Memory (CLM) is a basic research center comprised of neuroscientists with the shared goal of elucidating the mechanisms that govern learning and memory.

Memory & Perception Lab, Indiana University, USA  The Memory and Perception Lab (or, MAPLAB) is dedicated to the quantitative analysis and computational modeling of cognitive and perceptual processes, models that are typically applied to data collected in laboratory studies.

LeDoux Lab, New York University, USA   How does the brain form memories of life’s significant events? This is the question that motivates the research in our laboratory. More specifically, our work is focused on how traumatic memories are formed, stored, and retrieved.

Jonides Lab, University of Michigan, USA  Working memory is an integral part of our everyday lives, so much that most of the time we are not even aware it is at work. Our aim in the Jonides Lab is to better understand the mechanisms and underlying processes that contribute to working memory and to executive processes that operate on the contents of working memory. The majority of our work is concerned with the storage of information in working memory, as well as with executive functions of working memory.

The Memory Lab, Carnegie Mellon University, USA  The research in our lab focuses on furthering our understanding of how information is acquired and retrieved for use in different situations, using a variety of methodologies. These include computational modeling, behavioral studies that measure accuracy and latency, psychopharmacological interventions (using midazolam that create temporary anterograde amnesia), neuroimaging (both EEG and fMRI). 

Tsukiura Lab, Laboratory of Human Memory Research, Kyoto University, Japan  In our daily life, human beings are encoding, maintaining, and recalling many kinds of information. This series of psychological processes is “Memory”, which is clearly mediated by “Brain” functions. In our laboratory, we are investigating neural mechanisms underlying the human memory functions by several neuroscientific techniques.

Decision, Attention & Memory Lab, University of Maryland, USA  The DAM Lab was established in 2002, with the purpose of understanding how the basic processes of attention and memory influence the higher-level processes involved in behavioral decision making and human rationality. This initial work helped fuel the emergence of what is now known as cognitive decision theory, which is an offshoot of the traditional field of behavioral decision theory.Current research in the DAM Lab extends well beyond the original focus on judgment and decision making, and now includes research on cognitive and brain training, basic memory and cognitive ability, and social decision processes. Researchers use a variety of techniques, including computational modeling, eye tracking, and most recently neuroimaging.

Memory Lab, University of Notre Dame, USA   The vast majority of the projects being done in the Memory Lab are focused on various aspects of event cogniton, and how they impact human memory.

Johansen Lab, Riken Brain Science Institute, Japan   Our experiences in the world produce physical changes in the brain and as a result of these changes memories are formed. However, in our daily lives we are constantly barraged by sensory information, most of which we do not remember. What tells the brain to store some experiences as memories while others are forgotten? Answering this question is a central goal of our laboratory.

Laboratory for Synaptic Molecules of Memory Persistence, Riken Brain Science Institute, Japan   Autonomy in old age is a critical issue for an aging society and requires retention of motor skills acquired during youth and adult age. Our goal is to understand the molecular mechanisms enabling acquisition of new skills and the life-time retention of the memory traces created sometimes decades ago. The apparent paradox is that these memories are encoded in the brain by proteins with a life-time not exceeding a week and thus, our hypothesis is that the underlying mechanism rely on meta-stable reorganization of protein network rather than particular proteins. As a model for this process, we are investigating the cellular and molecular basis of long term synaptic plasticity in the cerebellum, at synapse between granule neurons and Purkinje neurons.

The Brewer Lab for Human Memory Research, UCSanDiego, USA  Our laboratory uses functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study memory processes in volunteers with healthy memory and in patients with memory difficulties, such as in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). This research focuses upon the medial temporal lobe (MTL), which shows selective damage early in the course of AD. 

Memory & Cognition Lab, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada  The main goal of the Lab is to increase understanding of human memory and related cognitive functions, how these functions vary across individuals, how they change across the adult lifespan, and how those age-related changes affect people’s use of moderns computing technologies.

Laboratory for Memory & Amnesia Research, Bar – Ilan University, Israel  In the Laboratory for Memory and Amnesia Research, we are concerned with the elucidating human memory processes, delineating their brain substrates, and developing evidence-based therapeutic interventions to benefit memory-impaired people. Our studies track both normal memory processes in healthy individuals as well as memory impairments and pathologies caused by injuries and other biological processes.

Burwell Laboratory, Behavioral Neuroscience of Memory & Attention, Brown University, USA  Our laboratory is dedicated to understanding the structure and function of the cortical regions that surround the hippocampus. Our goal is use behavioral neuroscience approaches in rats and mice to better understand human cognition.

Rissman Memory Lab, UCLosAngeles, USA  Research in the Rissman Lab explores the influence of goal-directed attention on memory. We are interested in understanding how top-down attentional control processes govern which mental representations are maintained in an active state on a moment-to-moment basis while ensuring that distracting stimuli are appropriately ignored. And we are also interested in how an individual’s goals and associated attentional states serve to guide the formation of a more durable mnemonic record of select experiences or facilitate the retrieval of relevant episodic details from one’s past.

The Memory, Attention, Perception Laboratory, UCIrvine, USA  The Memory Attention Perception Laboratory (MAP-Lab) studies how humans perceive, attend, learn, and remember information using a combination of behavioral testing and mathematical modeling. Our research falls into three categories: Memory in humans, with emphasis on forgetting and retrieval in explicit and implicit memory. Attention processes and their consequences for perceptual efficiency in information processing. How training in perceptual tasks improves visual performance and its use in cognitive rehabilitation.

Metacognition & Memory Lab, Columbia University, USA  The experiments conducted in the lab are computer-based cognition, memory, learning, or agency tests designed to empirically study people’s abilities to make judgments of their own learning; focusing on a theoretical perspective that proposes people are capable of honing in on their own ‘Region of Proximal Learning’.

PO. STL. AB, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA  Our interests in human memory and cognition encompass the cognitive and neural bases of working memory, attention, control, intelligence, and non-declarative memory.

MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit (CBU), Cambridge, UK   The MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit is a leading research centre for advancing understanding of human cognition such as memory, attention, perception, language and emotion. We aim to translate research findings to improve health and wellbeing, including developing psychological therapies for mood disorders, improving our understanding of cognitive problems in childhood, and optimising diagnostic and rehabilitative techniques for neurological conditions.

Human Working Memory Lab, Princeton University, USA  We are interested in contemporary models of working memory, from both a cognitive science and neuroscience perspective. Current research is aimed at understanding how, and if, working memory is different from the more traditional concept of short-term memory. We also, therefore, explore the distinction between short-term and long-term memory, and question whether this distinction is necessary.

The Schacter Memory Lab, Harvard University, USA  Research in the Schacter memory lab is broadly concerned with understanding the nature and function of human memory, using cognitive, neuropsychological, and neuroimaging approaches. Current topics of interest, and examples of related projects, include: Constructive memory and memory distortion. The role of memory in imagining the future. Counterfactual simulation and memory. Priming and implicit memory. Aging and memory.

The Human Memory  This website, written by a layman for the layman, attempts to piece together some of what we DO know about the enigma that is…The Human Memory.