When Memories Come Alive

Starting in autumn 2025, we will be running a series of experiments to investigate the subjective experience of vivid remembering. If you’re interested in taking part, keep an eye on this page. Full details will be posted here as they become available. 

Our upcoming studies include:

  1. Survey of Vivid Memories
    An online survey exploring how people recall vivid personal memories.
    Opens late summer 2025.

  2. Behavioural study of vivid memories
    A lab-based study examining cognitive mechanisms of vivid memories.
    More information coming soon.

  3. fMRI experiment
    A neuroimaging study investigating the brain basis of vivid remembering.
    Recruitment begins in 2026. In-person participation will be required in Cambridge.

Experiments

None at present. Please check back soon.

Image from O. S. Fowler, Memory and Intellectual Improvement (New York, 1850), 14. Wikimedia Commons, public domain.