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

Stress testing your memory like this exposes the weaknesses in connections between neurons so the memory can be updated, strengthening useful connections and pruning the ones getting in the way.

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

Researchers have mapped the more than 500,000 connections in the intricate brain of a fruit fly larva. This map, they say, could help scientists figure out how learning changes the human brain, too.

Noncanonical projections to the hippocampal CA3 regulate spatial learning and memory by modulating the feedforward hippocampal trisynaptic pathway. PLOS Biology, 2021; 19 (12): e3001127 DOI: 10. ...

In the mice, the optimal spacing between learning phases was found to be 30 or 60 minutes. Only these intervals improved longer-term memory retrieval the next day.

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 ...

Step 2. Associations. Memory is easier to form and recall if you think about how items are associated. Bread and butter go together, thinking of one helps you think of the other.

Aspartame, the non-sugar, low-calorie sweetener, has been linked to deficits in memory and learning, a study from Florida State University College of Medicine found. Experts weighed in.

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