Lockdown has affected your memory – here’s why

BBC, Nov. 16, 2020

People with highly superior powers of recall also vulnerable to false memories

People who can accurately remember details of their daily lives going back decades are as susceptible as everyone else to forming fake memories, UC Irvine psychologists and neurobiologists have found.

Brains of people with superior memory are different

A group of people with superior autobiographical memory all share structural variations in their brain structures, a UC Irvine study finds.

Natural Indications and solutions of weakened immunity within rampancy of COVID

Modern Diplomacy, June 16, 2021

Why the pandemic has destroyed your ability to concentrate

YourTango, Feb. 18, 2021

James McGaugh receives Grawemeyer Award for Psychology

Irvine, Calif., Dec. 3, 2014 — UC Irvine neurobiologist James McGaugh, whose research has vastly contributed to our knowledge of the brain’s learning and memory abilities, has won the 2015 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology. A research professor in neurobiology & behavior and a founding UCI faculty member, McGaugh is receiving the prize for […]

Highlights of 2012 at UCI

Year brings scientific advances, national accolades, international outreach, student achievement and loss of campus stalwarts

James McGaugh

Making memories

UC Irvine scientists have discovered intriguing variations in the brains of people who can effortlessly recall every moment of their lives since about age 10.

James McGaugh

UCI scientists study people who can’t forget

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