A simple beam of light may hold the power to sharpen your memory. New research shows that transcranial photobiomodulation, or tPBM, can significantly boost working memory when applied to a key part of ...

Think back to some of your core memories –meeting a spouse, getting a job you really wanted, or finding out someone you loved ...

A study by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine may change the way we understand memory. Until now, memories have been explained by the activity of neurons that respond to learning events and ...

Boston University researchers found that ordinary moments can gain staying power if they’re connected to significant ...

A meta-analysis in Psychological Bulletin of 317 experiments confirmed spaced practice outperforms massed learning. The testing effect, per a Psychological Bulletin study, showed recall tests improve ...

Think of a time when you had two different but similar experiences in a short period. Maybe you attended two holiday parties in the same week or gave two presentations at work. Shortly afterward, you ...

While the overall experience is stored in the hippocampus, the brain structure long considered the seat of memory, individual details are parsed and stored elsewhere, in the prefrontal cortex. This ...

Faced with a lack of effective treatments to prevent cognitive impairment, clinicians traditionally have proposed background music as a candidate alternative therapy for improving performance on ...

Emotional or rewarding experiences can preserve memories of concurrent ordinary events, offering insights into how the brain decides what to keep and what to forget.