For us to recall events, facts or processes, we have to commit them to memory. The process of forming a memory involves encoding, storing, retaining and subsequently recalling information and past ...

The music normally known as classical is rapidly evolving into something else — a sound, or maybe a sonic stance, “seeking the middle ground between the life of the mind and the noise of the street,” ...

Hoping to ease consumer concerns about shortages, handheld maker Palm announced Wednesday that Advanced Micro Devices will become its primary provider of flash memory chips through 2003. Last year, ...

One of the most iconic images of slavery is a schematic wood engraving depicting the human cargo hold of a slave ship. First published by British abolitionists in 1788, it exposed this widespread ...

Also, "turning off virtual memory" is a misnomer. You can't turn off virtual memory. This option should be referred to as "disable paging of private committed memory." All that does is eliminate ...

The idea that memories are not as reliable as we think they are is disconcerting, but it’s pretty well-established. Various studies have shown that participants can be persuaded to create false ...

The fickle mistress of memory is the focus of Buffalo Arts Studio’s latest installation “Committed to Memory,” crafted by mother, retired teacher and local artist Dorothy Fitzgerald. Her installation ...

“There is very little self-pity among polio patients,” says Susan Richards Shreve. “Most of them are looking forward to rejoining the regular world.” The George Mason University English professor and ...

For the past three months, a small group of actors has been gathering one night a week in a church basement in Chinatown, trying to imagine what it would have been like to be a victim of the Holocaust ...