Associating a number with sensations, and integrating it with existing knowledge, engages more neural systems and helps you store the information. Studies of people with exceptional memory have not ...

Working memory refers to the short-term storage and manipulation of sensory information lasting on the order of seconds 1. It has been associated with persistent neural activity in many brain regions ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. When you need to remember a phone number, a shopping list or a set of ...

When a person experiences short-term memory loss, he or she can remember incidents from 20 years ago but is fuzzy on the details of things that happened 20 minutes prior. There are a number of causes ...