As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people's powers of recollection, I'm often asked how memory works—and what we can do to use it more effectively. Happily, ...

A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in retrieving different types of information, the findings could redefine how memory ...

How does memory work? And how does… un-memory work? How does memory work? And how does… un-memory work? Our brain does a lot of remembering and forgetting every day, so you should probably make room ...

Research continues to indicate how imperative it is for us to start protecting our memory earlier in life. But when it comes to implicit vs. explicit memory, what’s the difference? Why are they ...

After more than a century of study, the significance of brain waves – the coordinated, rhythmic electrical activity of groups of brain cells – is still not fully known. An especially underappreciated ...

Sometimes, we search for information in long-term memory and find it—a name, a movie title, or a vivid example to support a general conclusion. Other times, we're unable to recall what we believe we ...

Sometimes we remember things that we did not even know we had memorised and sometimes the opposite happens – we want to remember something that we know we’ve learned but are not able to recall it.

How does procedural memory work? Scientists describe procedural memory as a kind of non-declarative memory, meaning its memory based on actions, rather than words. This means it can be difficult to ...

Memory essentially operates in three stages, with different brain regions contributing to each one. Sensory memory, which can last only milliseconds, registers raw information such as sights, sounds ...

The act of holding information in mind is accompanied by coordination of rotating brain waves in the prefrontal cortex, a phenomenon which might confer specific advantages, a new study suggests. After ...