Playing a rhythm-based game for eight weeks helps non-musicians become better at remembering recently seen faces. This suggests that learning to play an instrument could improve short-term memory for ...

From putting your phone away to getting better at ‘chunking’, a neuroscience researcher explains how to make your memory ...

Do you know your friends’ mobile numbers by heart? Or struggle to remember what you had for dinner last night? How well our memory works might be determined by a complex combination of genes, ...

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Practicing mindfulness meditation for just a week can improve a person’s ability to remember to do things at a specific time ...

Contrary to previous assumptions, visual short-term memory is not merely based on one kind of information about an object, such as only its colour or only its name. Rather, several types of ...