If you ask your friends about their favorite memories, they may mention their first kiss, a wedding day, or perhaps even giving birth to their child. It’s usually an important moment in time. But how ...

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

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

Memory creation and management is a complex process where the human brain collects, stores and recalls information that we need for various tasks. Yet these memories also play a more human role by ...

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

Our memories are valuable, yet they aren't always reliable. What we remember — and what we forget — often feels random, and it can be disappointing when our memory seems to let us down. While many ...

Perhaps you see a familiar face and cannot, for the life of you, remember the name. Or maybe you’re forever misplacing your keys. Or you forget to reply to a critical email after a notification pulls ...

Unlock a sharper mind by improving your working memory. Learn 5 simple, science-backed tips, including the chunking method ...

March 14 is "Pi Day," a celebration of the irrational number pi. Six-time USA Memory champion Nelson Dellis has memorized hundreds of pi digits. He talks about how, and other techniques to improve ...

In the 1920s, a Russian journalist named Solomon Shereshevsky became famous for his extraordinary memory. He could memorize and repeat up to 70 unrelated words, provided they were read about three ...

Episodic memory is a type of long-term memory. It helps you remember the time, place, and details surrounding a specific event or experience in your life. For example, remembering what you had for ...