Researchers have learned a lot about how memory works. Their insights form the basis of clever strategies that help us ...

Have you ever put your keys down and then quickly forgotten where to find them? When you try to recall where you might have left them, you are drawing on working memory, which is the ability to ...

With transistors and logic gates as our basic building blocks, we can begin to construct the actual circuits that make up computer memory. One of the simplest memory circuits is the AND gate, which ...

The mysteries of how memory works are explained in a new book that suggests anyone can boost their powers of recall -- and that losing your keys is normal. The mysteries of how memory works are ...

In this episode, Professor Charan Ranganath, director of the Dynamic Memory Lab at UC Davis and author of Why We Remember, reveals how memory truly works. He explains how our choices shape the ...

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We tend to think of human memory as if it's one of those old steel filing cabinets: some information gets stashed inside, and when the time comes, we hope we can find it by flipping through the tabs ...

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 ...

Memory defines us in so many ways, but it’s not exactly what we think it is. We tend to imagine memory almost like a filing cabinet — a faithful record of the past we can pull from when needed. But ...