Imagine having a conversation with someone who remembers every detail about your preferences, past discussions, and even the nuances of your personality. It feels natural, seamless, and, most ...

Before smartphones rewired our brains, an entire generation developed nine distinct mental superpowers that modern psychology is only now beginning to understand—and they might explain why your ...

Memorization can get a bad rap in education debates, conjuring images of mindless repetition or a “drill and kill” pedagogy. After all, why memorize something when we can look it up on our phone? But ...

What if the future of artificial intelligence is being held back not by a lack of computational power, but by a far more mundane problem: memory? While AI’s computational capabilities have skyrocketed ...

The world of AI has been moving at lightning speed, with transformer models turning our understanding of language processing, image recognition and scientific research on its head. Yet, for all the ...

Memory is complicated. A new study co-authored by Jeopardy! contestant Monica Thieu looks at how two different memory systems might give some people an edge with recalling facts. I'll take episodic ...