Older adults who play digital puzzle games may have memory on par with 20-year-olds
Researchers find that strategic elements in gaming might contribute to improved memory and attention among young players.
Researchers find that strategic elements in gaming might contribute to improved memory and attention among young players.
Implicit memory is why you never forget how to ride a bike or play the guitar.
We tend to remember ourselves as older than we were during our earliest memories.
These viruses can alter our gut microbiome to improve brain function.
Understanding where and how memories are formed could lead to more ways to treat conditions like PTSD and addiction.
That’s great, because I love breaks.
The method used on 'Sherlock' has actually been used since Roman times, with great success.
We’re not always rational actors.
Although popularized by a "paranormal consultant", the effect is real.
Just one week of switching to a diet of burgers, waffles, milkshakes, and sugary cereals can be enough to trigger ...
Don't believe everything you think
Our memory doesn't work like a camera. But even though there's no such thing as photographic memory there are some ...
They say follow your dreams but I can't even remember them.
Rats with artificially-reduced ghrelin signaling showed impaired performance in an episodic memory task.
The best course of action in such situations is simply to avoid places that could make you 'sin'.
The secret to success is to take a short break, often.
The brain has an auto-complete feature for your memories. The hippocampus handles it.
That's about the same size as.... 3 high-resolution memes or one-tenth of a second of video in 1080p.
You can intentionally forget memories but it does take some work.
This is something worth remembering. So, maybe, sleep on it a bit?
Some more, some less.
Stress and memory don't mix very well.
Sleep seems to be a keystone of memory formation and retention.
The reason is pretty simple.
Data is a girl's best friend.
A new study offers insight into how neurons work together to make us remember stuff.
Just like anything else, it needs constant exercise to stay in shape.
Blacking out from alcohol is a bit more complicated than you might think.
A new study found that drawing information you need to remember is a very efficient way to enhance your memory. ...
A team from IBM Research dramatically increased the storage capacity of an alternative memory structure called phase-change memory (PCM) to ...
Portable data storage, such as USB drives, might not be quite as useful or sought after as they once were ...
A new study found that whole populations of bacteria retain their tolerance to stressors for a much longer duration than ...
Scientists at the Georgia State University, Georgia Regents University and Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center found that the brain uses ...
Material scientists at Oxford University, collaborating with experts from Karlsruhe, Munster and Exeter, have developed the world's first light-based memory ...
Each memory relies on three critical elements, those being the "what," "where" and "when" building blocks. Neuroscientists from MIT have ...
Neuroscientists have long posited that memories last as long as the connections in the brain, but putting this theory to ...
Memories aren't infallible - even for those with photographic memory - so, more often than not, they'll seem fuzzy. And ...
For a while, the general consensus was that long term memories are stored in synapses. A new UCLA research topples ...
Really bad experiences, like going through a particularly stressful or frighting situation, are a lot easier to remember than the things ...
Scientists have found that cocoa flavanols, substances found in chocolate, and to a lesser extent in blueberries, red wine, parsley and ...
Long term shift work has a permanent negative effect on the brain damaging cognitive ability and memory, a new study has ...
Topping conventional thinking, a new study found that making mistakes while learning can benefit memory, but only when the wrong ...
Babies can learn what to fear from the first days of life simply by smelling their distressed mothers, a new ...
Researchers have erased and then reactivated memories in rats, profoundly impacting the animals' reaction to past events. This is the ...
Photo: yahoo.com A new study that looked to compare how working memory differs in young and old people, found that ...
A still from the game participants played. They made deliveries to stores, then were asked to recall what they had ...
Improve your memory, improve your reasoning and observational skills, and many more - brain training games are becoming more and ...