Storytelling Style Changes How Brain Encodes Memories

How the Art of Storytelling Alters Memory Formation

Researchers found that different storytelling strategies, focused on either conceptual or perceptual details, can influence how the brain forms memories.

How Stories Sculpt the Brain: What New Research Says About Memory and Media

In a world saturated with stories—from ancient myths to TikTok clips—narratives knit together emotion, memory, and meaning. A new study in the Journal of Neuroscience suggests that how a story is told—through vivid sensory detail or thoughtful reflection—changes the way it’s encoded in the brain and remembered. Stories don’t just entertain; they sculpt memory pathways, engaging different neural networks depending on whether we focus on what we s…

Exploring how storytelling strategies shape memories

Does the way a person hears about an event shape their recollection of it later? In a new JNeurosci paper, Signy Sheldon and colleagues, from McGill University, explored whether different storytelling strategies affect how the brain stores that experience as a memory and recalls it later.

Storytelling Methods Alter How Memories Are Stored in the Brain, Neuroscientists Find

Telling the same story in different ways can change the brain networks that the listener uses to form memories

Frontiers | A Neurocognitive Perspective on the Forms and Functions of Autobiographical Memory Retrieval

Autobiographical memory retrieval involves constructing mental representations of personal past episodes by associating together an array of details related ...

The impact of retrieval goals on memory for complex events in younger and older adults

Retrieval goals influence what individuals remember from past experiences. Previous research has demonstrated that adopting accuracy and social goals modify the content of an associated episodic memory. Age-related episodic memory changes coincide with shifts in retrieval goals, leading to questions …