Here’s the effortless aspect of improving your memory. According to a study published in Psychological Science, people who ...

The spatial layout of script and diagrams on a page allows the information to be visualized, creating an opportunity for a rudimentary form of photographic memory, where a study can imagine in the ...

To learn from a text, students must make meaningful connections among related ideas in that text. This study examined the effectiveness of two methods of improving connections—elaborative ...

Working memory limitations mean that multi-tasking does not exist. Instead, we switch our attention quickly between different tasks, but this comes at a cost for more than 98% of learners: they take ...

When faced with difficult tasks, sometimes people hit a mental wall and make the decision to "sleep on it." Returning to the ...

Because working memory often declines with aging, Stine-Morrow and her colleagues recruited 90 Champaign-Urbana locals aged 60–87.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have developed a simulation model of the evolution of social learning. They showed that the interplay between ...

More information: Nuri Jeong et al, Goal-specific hippocampal inhibition gates learning, Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08868-5 Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology ...

A crucial discovery implicating epigenetics in learning and memory was the observation that neuronal activity can induce changes in DNA methylation 4. As one neuron communicates with another, ...