Why we forget things so quickly ...

Decades of research has found that exercise is helpful for overall health and fitness, doing everything from lowering your risk of heart disease to helping you sleep better. According to a new study, ...

As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people's powers of recollection, I'm often asked how ...

Memory can be broken down into multiple types, including long-term memory, short-term memory, explicit and implicit memory, and working memory. Memory is a process in your brain that enables you to ...

For decades, researchers have misunderstood a key aspect of short-term memory because of shortcomings in the way they compare the memory capacity of deaf people who use American Sign Language (ASL) ...

We often treat short-term memory like a light switch. But that might be leaving people in the dark. For example, comprehensive short-term memory tests need to assess not only recall, but how ...

Using optogenetics techniques, scientists from Max Planck Florida Institute of Neuroscience identified a new pathway for forming long-term memories in the brain. Their findings suggest that long-term ...

The Key Finding: Disrupting short-term memory formation did not block long-term memory The research team focused on a specific enzyme in neurons called CaMKII, which is critical for short-term memory ...

How good is your working memory? Whether it involves holding a telephone number in your head long enough to write it down or trying to keep track of all the items on a grocery list, having a good ...