Letting an AI assistant handle the hard parts of thinking feels efficient in the moment, but a growing body of cognitive ...

A new neuromorphic device controls hydrogen ions to mimic synaptic learning and memory, achieved for the first time in a vertical two-terminal architecture.

The more you know, the smarter you can be. The more you know about how to memorize, the more you will know. I identify five steps for thinking effectively about how to memorize. Step 1. What NOT to ...

Memory is not a recording device. It doesn't play back events like a video camera would. Instead, it's a remarkably active, ...

The hippocampus serves as the primary learning and memory center of the brain, but this is not where our memories are held. Rather, memory traces or engrams are represented by the connections between ...

Memories can form outside of the brain, according to new research. Non-brain cells exposed to chemical pulses similar to the ones that brain cells are exposed to when presented with new information ...

A new study shows that 20 minutes of cardio can trigger memory-linked brain waves in the hippocampus, offering the first direct evidence of this effect in humans.

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When Michelle D. Miller leads faculty workshops, she often does what she calls a “party trick” that she uses on the first day of class with her students: learning everyone’s names. As professors have ...