Aging and memory are often discussed as though they always move in the same direction. A forgotten name or misplaced receipt ...

In our age of information overload, remembering things can be a daunting task. But as a memory researcher and college professor, I’ve found some hope in that challenge. In January 2021, like millions ...

How do we learn to remember? At the most fundamental level, it's all about chemicals and electricity. Beyond their roles in ...

The findings may also have implications for learning and memory disorders, including Fragile X syndrome. Less than twenty minutes after finishing this article, your brain will begin to store the ...

Social media connectivity boosts networking performance while significantly reducing content learning and recall accuracy.

It is now understood that the hippocampus is closely linked to learning and memory (Doidge, 2015; Suzuki, 2015). However, this was not always the case. One prominent experiment investigating memory, ...

Research undertaken over the last century has revealed that sleep plays a role in the mechanisms directing normal cognitive and developmental processes, including the consolidation of memories. This ...

Planarians, small flatworms less than a centimeter long, have a rich and controversial history in the science of memory. It all began in 1955, when biopsychologist James McConnell and his colleague ...

“We show that when writing by hand, brain connectivity patterns are far more elaborate than when typewriting on a keyboard,” writes Audrey van der Meer, a brain researcher at the Norwegian University ...

As concern grows about the long-term health effects of modern diets, new research led by the University of Technology Sydney ...