A stressful job and lifestyle could damage a person's short-term memory in old age, scientists have warned. A study at the University of Iowa has found a potential link between a hormone and ...

There's a reason why telling your dog off for bad behaviour doesn't always work. Compared to humans, animals don't remember specific events, but instead tend to retain useful information that could ...

Sending electrical currents into two parts of the brain known for storing and recalling information modestly boosted immediate recall of words in people over 65, according to a study by a team at ...

Memory has been studied since the birth of cognitive science. While there are several explanations of memory, there is a broad consensus that it functions similarly to computerized processes. It sorts ...

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 ...

Cedars-Sinai investigators have discovered how brain cells responsible for working memory—the type required to remember a phone number long enough to dial it—coordinate intentional focus and ...

My memory isn't as good as it used to be. But I have been through some stressful times in life and think that has a lot to do with it. Before I came to England, I did the Jamaican local exams, which ...

Sensory memories are stored for a few seconds at most. They come from the five senses: hearing, vision, touch, smell, and taste. They are stored only for as long as the sense is being stimulated. They ...