We tend to think of people's memories as being either good or bad. However, you might know someone with a terrible memory for names and faces who is very good at learning languages. Another person ...

Memory concerns don’t have to become inevitable realities after age 40. The brain possesses remarkable plasticity throughout life, and strategic interventions beginning in the fifth decade can ...

Working memory is a crucial element of higher cognition in both primates—which include humans—and corvids. In their studies, with the help of two jackdaws, researchers at Ruhr University Bochum have ...

Memory is an interesting thing. Most of us may wish it was better. We may envy those with “photographic” memory or people who seem to have no trouble recalling phone numbers, matching faces to names, ...

Ageing is typically accompanied by declines in episodic memory, associative binding and strategic retrieval, yet considerable variability exists across individuals. Cognitive strategies—ranging from ...

Many of us take our memory for granted. We just assume that it'll be there when we need it. That, however, is not always the case. While some people are naturally blessed with a great memory, for most ...