A review of more than 130 studies explains how sleep helps people learn new information and plays an important role in storing learned content for future use. The review is published in the January ...

But the mind palace is a real mnemonic device, and Watson’s description is fairly accurate, says Long. More commonly known as ...

All memory storage devices, from your brain to the RAM in your computer, store information by changing its physical qualities. Over 130 years ago, pioneering neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal ...

Memory is a continually unfolding process. Initial details of an experience take shape in memory; the brain’s representation of that information then changes over time. With subsequent reactivations, ...

A prevalent view of visual working memory (VWM) is that visual information is actively maintained in the form of perceptually integrated objects. Such reliance on object-based representations would ...