Has this ever happened to you? You’re having dinner with your family or friends. Suddenly, your beverage gets knocked over, and it spills all over the table, making a mess. Think back to that moment.

Say you need to remember something important. Information from a meeting where taking notes wasn’t possible. A pitch you’ll make to investors. A presentation you’ll make to employees. So you take ...

Learning a musical instrument later in life may help keep the brain younger for longer. In a four-year study, older adults ...

Anyone can improve their memory using a proven scientific method the ancient Greeks and Romans developed. The idea is to create a "memory palace." A group of researchers says training daily using an ...

Ever feel like those catchy song lyrics or random pieces of trivia won't leave your head, and it's affecting your memory? Boston University associate professor of psychological & brain sciences Dr.

The paper, "Organizing the coactivity structure of the hippocampus from robust to flexible memory," is published in Science. Memories inform our everyday actions and guide our behaviors. However, when ...

Think of your happiest memory. A wedding, your child’s birth, or maybe just a perfect night out with friends. Sit with it for a moment. Remember the details. What were you wearing? What did it smell ...

Memories evolve throughout our lifetimes, changing as we learn and experience new things and as we recall a memory repeatedly. And then, memories degrade as we age. Previously, scientists thought that ...

Researchers have developed a new type of memory cell that can both store information and do high-speed, high-efficiency calculations. The memory cell enables users to run high-speed computations ...