Forget where you just left your car keys? A magnetic pulse might help you remember. Some dormant memories can be revived by delivering a pulse of magnetic energy to the right brain cells, researchers ...

Dublin, Apr 11 (The Conversation) As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people’s powers of recollection, I’m often asked how memory works – and what we can do to use ...

Many people have had the experience of smelling something — maybe a perfume or food — that triggers a memory, often from early childhood. Venki Murthy, a neuroscientist and director of the Center for ...

Explore the science of memory: Discover how your brain records, retains, and retrieves the past. Uncover why we forget and the fascinating mechanisms behin ...

Scientists have uncovered a stepwise system that guides how the brain sorts and stabilizes lasting memories. By tracking brain activity during virtual reality learning tasks, researchers identified ...

In the 1920s, a Russian journalist named Solomon Shereshevsky became famous for his extraordinary memory. He could memorize and repeat up to 70 unrelated words, provided they were read about three ...