As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people's powers of recollection, I'm often asked how ...

A brief bout of physical exercise can create "ripples" of activity in your brain that help you store and retrieve memories.

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Four-time Jeopardy! Contestant Monica Thieu shares eight simple psychological tricks that quickly boost memory and recall.

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Whenever you ride a bike or knit a sweater, you’re using your procedural memory. Two cognitive scientists explain what it is ...