Memory can be broken down into multiple types, including long-term memory, short-term memory, explicit and implicit memory, and working memory. Memory is a process in your brain that enables you to ...

Over the past decade, research has shown that the likelihood that an item will be remembered is highly consistent across viewers, tasks and stimulus types. This property is known as ‘memorability’ and ...

During my dissertation research on combat veterans with post-traumatic stress (PTS), I realized that when discussing traumatic events that lead to PTS, the victim often has a hard time describing the ...

As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people’s powers of recollection, I’m often asked how memory works – and what we can do to use it more effectively. Happily, ...

Memory and attention are intertwined cognitive functions that enable humans to filter, encode and retrieve information from a constantly changing environment. Attention acts as a gatekeeper, ...