Anyone can improve their memory using a proven scientific method the ancient Greeks and Romans developed. The idea is to create a "memory palace." A group of researchers says training daily using an ...

In prior lessons, we learned some of the key principles of memorization: Lesson 1: encoding, consolidation, retrieval, re-consolidation Lesson 2: getting motivated Lesson 3: paying attention Lesson 8: ...

Ed. note: This blog was originally presented at Sleights of Mind. Magicians sometimes perform seemingly impossible feats of memory, for instance, to remember the order of a "randomly shuffled" deck of ...

Most people have trouble remembering where they put their car keys, or if they turned their oven off. And yet an astonishing few can memorize entire decks of cards and long strings of random numbers.

There are few people in the world who remember everything they’ve ever read, heard or experienced, and from all accounts, they find it a curse, not a blessing. Most of us recall enough to get by, and ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American One of the tragedies of aging is the slow but ...