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Charan Ranganath is a professor of neuroscience and psychology and director of the memory and plasticity program at the University of California, Davis. He has been studying the neuroscience of memory ...

Have you ever forgotten a lunch date and stood up a good friend? This can be embarrassing and disconcerting, a potential sign that your memory just isn’t what it used to be. But, according to a new ...

In response to the growing popularity of writing in his day, Plato expressed concern that this newfangled form of information technology would be detrimental to the memory of those people who used it.

Stuck in a habit rut? Here’s why switching things up can do good things for your brain! Even though the popularity of books ...

This is a column about a helpful trick that will radically improve your memory with minimal effort so you can learn faster. But before I get to the science behind the technique and how it can help ...

Perhaps you see a familiar face and cannot, for the life of you, remember the name. Or maybe you’re forever misplacing your keys. Or you forget to reply to a critical email after a notification pulls ...