It’s lunchtime, and you and your friend are hungry. You venture into the kitchen and make your favorite sandwich—peanut butter and jelly. You assume your friend can make the same thing, but they have ...

Stanford scientists found that aging disrupts the brain’s internal navigation system in mice, mirroring spatial memory decline in humans. Older mice struggled to recall familiar locations, while a few ...

A new study shows that visual memory, not just scent cues, are used to hunt down treats. By Laura Baisas Published Sep 13, 2023 2:00 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, ...

Age-related memory decline and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's are often thought of as irreversible. But the ...

Usually, forgetting where you put your coffee cup down doesn’t have a major impact on the rest of your life – you can easily retrieve another cup of coffee (and find the other one later, in a cabinet ...

Memory is often understood purely on a theoretical, cognitive basis. However, this perspective can only explain so much. Neuroanatomy offers an understanding of the physical areas of the brain in ...

Sensory memory refers to very short-term memories about perceptions of the world through the five senses of sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste. A fraction of the information captured in sensory ...

The unofficial record for reciting digits of pi is held by a Japanese engineer, Akira Haraguchi, who memorized a whopping 100,000 digits of the constant. Haraguchi’s record was filmed east of Tokyo in ...