Anyone who outsources names and facts to phones should care, because Foer trained a year under a grandmaster and won the 2006 US Memory Championship.

The theory that "reading English aloud 1000 times will make you able to speak it" contains a rational truth from the perspective of cognitive psychology and brain science (neuroscience). However, the ...

Introduction As datasets grow, processing them efficiently on a single machine can become challenging due to limitations in ...

The other day, I came across a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Eiji/Eion Kaji (@ENsoundsmith) that I really resonated ...

The aging brain may be undergoing a remarkable transformation rather than simply losing its abilities, shifting its focus from remembering details to understanding the bigger picture. Scientists ...

New research reveals that slow spindle density and slow oscillation coupling during a daytime nap are linked to speech-sound ...

A German study comparing vision and memory in conversational Pepper robots finds that seeing enhances perceived social ...

Epilepsy has significant effects on retrieval from declarative memory, the kind that we process consciously. You may have difficulty in retrieving episodes or events that happened to you, and also ...

Ariela Karmel is a political correspondent at The Times of Israel. She previously reported for Calcalist and Haaretz. She holds an MA in Middle Eastern and African History from Tel Aviv University and ...

Hollywood loves a superpower. Not all involve capes or cosmic rays. Some are cognitive: characters who can remember everything. In movies and on TV, viewers repeatedly encounter those with ...

Like the device you’re probably reading this on, sometimes our brains need a hard reset or update to keep our software running bug-free. For humans, that’s sleep. Aside from being necessary for our ...

Declarative memory can be further broken down into semantic memory and episodic memory. Semantic memory refers to general knowledge about the world. For example, knowing that cats are mammals.