One of my favorite activities to do with students when I’m teaching them about memory is to ask them to tell me about a penny. Seems easy, right? Try it! Here’s what I want to know: Who is on the ...

After shuffling the cards in a standard 52-card deck, Alex Mullen, a three-time world memory champion, can memorize their order in under 20 seconds. As he flips though the cards, he takes a mental ...

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, ...

Our days are packed with the mundane. We wake up, pick out our clothes, and commute to work or school. We make our dinners; we do our dishes; and we put ourselves to bed. Sometimes these moments are ...

Memory is a curious thing. When someone asks me to tell a good fish story, I can only recount a few of my most stellar catches. Strange, because I have fished thousands of days over many years. Many ...

If you've ever noticed how memories from the same day seem connected while events from weeks apart feel separate, a new study reveals the reason: Our brains physically link memories that occur close ...