People may misremember events, often within seconds, and reshape memories to fit their expectations, according to a new study that sheds more light on such illusions in short-term memory. Previous ...

Short-term memory can hold information for about 20 to 30 seconds, or even less. People can usually store between five and nine items in short-term memory, but recent research suggests about four ...

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 ...

Know about "Doorway Effect," real cognitive phenomenon showing that passing through doorways can disrupt short-term memory ...

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 ...

Scientists at Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience discovered a parallel pathway for forming long-term memories that bypasses short-term memory. Using optogenetics, they blocked short-term ...

It may be hard to imagine when they’re so tiny, but little ones’ brains are busy making memories all the time. In fact, they have been since before birth, according to Dr Jane Gilmour, a consultant ...

Short-term memory capacity is a core component of working memory. There are at least two types of short-term memory store. In the following resources, we will explore verbal short-term memory, and ...