News-Medical.Net January 27, 2026
A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in retrieving different types of information, the findings could redefine how memory is understood and studied.
Researchers from the School of Psychology at the University of Nottingham and the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge have examined episodic and semantic memory, combining task based and fMRI data, and have shown that there is no difference in neural activity between successful semantic and episodic retrieval. The findings have been published today in Nature Human Behaviour.
Episodic memory refers to the ability to remember a past event that occurred in a particular spatial and temporal context....
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