Digital art trends, particularly in gaming, come and go; they capture our attention, then fade away. Weirdcore, on the other ...

Though memory hasn’t been studied much in a live concert setting, said Dr. Jakubowski, studies comparing recorded and live listening experiences have found that being among other people ...

Memory allows us to know ourselves—to develop a sense of who we are, what our lives are like, and why—based on facts and impressions gathered throughout our lives to date.

A family watches baseball in 1966. Scientists who study nostalgia say the feeling often results from remembering a positive memory from childhood, a time when we were cared for.

1. Find a shortcut to your happy place. Think of a memory of a specific place and time that gives you a feeling of warmth, the kind you reflexively turn to in moments of distress.

Music 20 ways of thinking about nostalgia from a year of backward listening Our musical memories help us know who we are. So how do we keep Memory Lane from torquing into a Mobius loop?

A very specific kind of memory is being activated during nostalgia, Routledge says. “Most of the time when you’re nostalgic, it’s autobiographical; you’re accessing what we call ‘self ...