Can you remember what you had for dinner last weekend? That ability is a function of episodic memory, and how well we can recall the time and place of specific events typically declines with age.

A common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) swims off Croatia in the Mediterranean Sea. (Reinhard Dirscherl/ullstein bild via Getty Images) We named him Squirt — not because he was the smallest of the 16 ...

During an event, details like what you saw, smelled, and felt aren't stored as a single memory. Rather, they are encoded and stored in your brain separately. To retrieve that memory, those pieces must ...

Even in old age, cuttlefish remain as mentally sharp as ever. Ageing mammals — especially humans — gradually lose their ability to remember specific events. To find out whether the same is true of ...

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Cuttlefish can remember what, where, and when specific events happened - right up to their last few days of life, researchers have found. The results, published this week in the journal Proceedings of ...