UVA doctoral student Musa Kazim Azimli uses spatial storytelling to reconstruct an Ottoman Empire slave market.

The next time you're struggling to remember exactly where you left your keys, parked your car or put down your glasses, don't necessarily give up on your memory completely. Previous research has shown ...

What role does memory play in recording and reflecting upon history? How can recording practices illuminate shifts around our expectation of truth, help to dismantle accepted and exclusionary ...

Facts inform. Stories transform. Throughout human history, storytelling has been a catalyst for connecting generations, ...

A person’s storytelling can be so captivating that the details linger long after they’re told. What is it that makes these stories so memorable? Research suggests that the hippocampus plays a key role ...

All poetry tells a story, but not all storytelling is necessarily poetic. When it comes to two new collections of poetry from local authors Adam Deutsch and Manuel Paul López, they each have divergent ...

The next time you’re having a stressful time remembering where you left your keys, phone or glasses, don’t necessarily give up on your memory completely. That’s what Brigham and Women’s Hospital ...

Imagine a CEO about to pitch the next big innovation in front of a crowd of potential investors. Instead of diving straight into statistics and projections, he begins with a vivid story about a single ...

In a series of experiments, researchers tested people’s ability to remember where and when they saw an object—spatial and temporal memory—and found both forms of memory to be massive “People often ...