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Memory Systems
One of the toughest vocational exams in the world requires candidates to memorize 25,000 streets in an area five times the size of Manhattan.
When your head is full of information, how can you actually make use of it?
Memory takes effort, and our brains know it.
Participants’ brains revealed they were doing a kind of “neural replay” of the game they had been manipulated to win.
"I am free. It's a lot of effort to be free from the prison that is in your mind, and the key is in your pocket." - Edith Eva Eger
Changing the narrative on false memories might be surprisingly simple.
Research suggests curiosity triggers parts of the brain associated with anticipation, making answers more rewarding once discovered.
Whenever something goes wrong — in business as in life — we tend to get cause and effect totally muddled up.
Is a repressed memory always so bad?
Beer before wine and you'll feel fine? Well, it depends.
An excerpt from “Memory,” a primer on human memory, its workings, feats, and flaws, by two leading psychological researchers.
The truth may be out there — but it’s not in these close encounters of the third kind.
Memories aren’t mental recordings, but pliable information we can use to better manage the present and conjure future possibilities.
Here's the thorny reality behind psychedelics' ability to unearth buried memories.
To make a ton of information stick in your mind, you have to make it chunky.
Research suggests you can influence your sense of time by changing the “embodiedness” of your daily habits.
High-frequency oscillations that ripple through our brains may generate memory and conscious experience.
After my father died, my journey of rediscovery began with the Czech language.
Your brain is not an obsolete piece of technology. Once properly trained for learning, it’s your ticket to navigating the AI landscape.
Katie Kermode — a memory athlete with four world records — tells Big Think about her unique spin on an ancient technique to memorize unfathomably long lists of information.
If you want to achieve new goals, harness your brain's ability to change chemically, structurally, and functionally.
We are prone to false memories. One reason is that we are biased toward remembering tidy endings for events, even if they didn't exist.
Language influences how you visually process the world, which in turn influences your memory of it.
Bad news: Sleeping in on the weekends probably won't cut it.
Modern memory athletes use this ancient technique to memorize thousands of digits of pi.
Synchronized activity between the hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and thalamus plays a role in memory consolidation.
New research shows that the transition from general to specific memories involves the maturation of inhibitory neurons in the hippocampus.
Forgetting and misremembering are the building blocks of creativity and imagination.
Neuroscientists hope to learn more in the hope of finding a way to reverse dementia.
The content of our long-term memories is constantly "reconstructed" by our brains. The same is true of memories formed mere seconds ago.