CHICAGO --A brief course of brain exercises helped older adults hold on to improvements in reasoning skills and processing speed for 10 years after the course ended, according to results from the ...

Our minds have a tendency to latch onto negative experiences more strongly than positive ones. While occasional negative ...

How often do you long for a better memory? Well, this neuroscientist can help you achieve just that. Maybe you're giving a presentation or revising for exams, or maybe you just always forget where you ...

True photographic memory as depicted in pop culture doesn’t exist. That’s because too much detail would defeat our ability to make a quick decision based on experience. However, some people have ...

I first got interested in memory training at age 15 when my dad was a salesman for the Dale Carnegie leadership course, which included a section on memory training. My dad taught me some tricks that ...

In today's high-pressure professional environments, from national security to corporate leadership, memory is a strategic asset. Yet, despite its centrality to decision-making, 1 most modern ...

For the last few months, 13-year-old Claire Wang of Los Angeles has been training her memory with playing cards, phone numbers, software — "whatever I can get my hands on," she says. She's been ...

The amount of information that can be maintained in working memory (WM) is limited. An individual's WM capacity is predictive of performance in higher cognitive abilities. Although traditionally ...