Have you ever wondered how much information your brain can actually hold? According to Professor Paul Reber from Northwestern ...

Imagine you're 6 years old and in the back seat of your parents' car on a road trip. Your mum decides to stop for breakfast ...

Memory is a continually unfolding process. Initial details of an experience take shape in memory; the brain’s representation of that information then changes over time. With subsequent reactivations, ...

As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people's powers of recollection, I'm often asked how memory works—and what we can do to use it more effectively. Happily, ...

A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks. Researchers expected clear differences but instead found strong overlap ...

You might say you have a “bad memory” because you don’t remember what cake you had at your last birthday party or the plot of a movie you watched last month. On the other hand, you might precisely ...

In the 1920s, a Russian journalist named Solomon Shereshevsky became famous for his extraordinary memory. He could memorize and repeat up to 70 unrelated words, provided they were read about three ...

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 ...