Playing a rhythm-based game for eight weeks helps non-musicians become better at remembering recently seen faces. This suggests that learning to play an instrument could improve short-term memory for ...

You've only been in the shopping center for a few minutes, but back in the car park, you suddenly freeze. Where did I park? The memory feels gone. You guess and start to head left. Then you see the ...

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Do you know your friends’ mobile numbers by heart? Or struggle to remember what you had for dinner last night? How well our memory works might be determined by a complex combination of genes, ...

Contrary to previous assumptions, visual short-term memory is not merely based on one kind of information about an object, such as only its colour or only its name. Rather, several types of ...