Poor visual working memory can play an important role in the difficulties experienced by a child with autism, according to our recent research. The aim of this study was to compare the working memory ...

Our visual memory is not as good as we may think, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust – but it can be used more flexibly than scientists previously thought. In a study(1) published ...

Contributor: Nina R. Eastes The idea of a “smarter brain pill” gets a lot of hype. But behind the buzz, a quieter story ...

Imagine you are a security guard in one of those casino heist movies where your ability to recognize an emerging crime will depend on whether you notice a subtle change on one of the many security ...

Researchers at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT report that Alzheimer’s disease disrupts at least one form of visual memory in mice by degrading a newly identified circuit that ...

Short-term memory loss is scary because one would expect things that they just saw to be front of their mind. If you feel like you are having trouble with your recollection, you can test your ...

New research shows that in natural vision, visual memory of images is affected by the size of the image on the retina. The findings can have many implications, including on the use of different types ...