“I read it over and over, word-by-word, letter-by-letter, looking for patterns that might reveal the title.” Mary Breerwood, one of the few readers who went to the trouble, first found letters ...

Maurya Simon, a poet and professor at UC Riverside, is writing a book called “My Father’s Daughter: A Memoir in Five Movements.” (Courtesy of Jamie Clifford) Memory is fickle, quixotic and slippery as ...

Ah, the nostalgia of childhood memories — that cherished first bicycle ride, the debut dip in the ocean, the distinctive patterns of wallpaper long since removed from the family home. These early ...

The researchers found that adults could recall early memories more vividly after briefly seeing a childlike version of their ...