New psychology findings, discussed by Jessica Tarlov, explain why people forget names right after meeting them, asserting it's not rudeness but a memory encoding issue. Dana Perino shares a memory ...

To improve memory, Nelson Dellis says to stop outsourcing so much to devices and practice active recall, attention, and imagination instead.

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Researchers working with Alzheimer’s disease mouse models have shown that manipulating a single factor in brain cells called ...

Research on memory, stress and motor learning suggests many police training programs reward short-term performance while ...

The study tested 267 soldiers, finding that 20 minutes of activity strongly predicts performance on the Armed Forces ...

Robot skill library ASPIRE — released June 29 by NVIDIA and collaborators — gives robots persistent memory by storing every debugging fix as a named, reusable code pattern. It pushed bimanual handover ...

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most ...

Explore the evolution of pain understanding, from ancient philosophies to modern interdisciplinary treatments in pain ...

Instead, we find that fixation timing is more closely tied to memory encoding than to visual processing difficulty: The brain appears to linger to commit information to memory rather than because it ...

Summary: Astrocytes, star-shaped non-neuronal cells, serve as active gatekeepers of long-term memory stability. By ...

RNA has emerged as one of the most promising molecules in modern medicine, enabling advances from mRNA vaccines and gene ...