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 ...

Researchers found that caffeine may help reduce the effects of sleep deprivation.

Healthy habits, including exercise, a good diet and getting enough sleep, can pay big dividends on improving memory function ...

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) ...

Transient Global Amnesia (TGA) is a self-limiting neurological syndrome in which episodes typically last for 4-8 hours and ...

People viewed the tiny colored squares (in the larger box at the top) for a tenth of a second; then, after 1 second and after 4 seconds, they could usually match the color of the highlighted box to a ...

Multitasking usually lowers productivity because most people are “task switching,” which creates a mental “switch cost” that slows processing and reduces accuracy. Switching between tasks strains ...