Memory has been a topic of discussion several times over the past couple of days in relation to announcements around generative artificial intelligence (GAI). Not the type of memory that goes into a ...

Oh, how familiar it is: You put your phone down and a few minutes later, you’re looking for it in the kitchen, in your purse, on the floor — did I leave it in the car? Or you run into a neighbor and ...

Source: Wikipedia Commons. By Wren de Antonio - Original source: Publicity photo circulated to press by Penguin Books. "I remember DDT." "I Remember Marilyn Monroe's softness in The Misfits." "I ...

When we talk to friends and family about our common past, we sometimes discover discrepancies in memory. But that doesn’t mean memory is unreliable. These discrepancies mainly illustrate differences ...

How do cell phones affect our memories? What percentage of them are imagined? A group of neuroscientists is trying to unravel ...

You have an idea. A great idea. A brilliant idea. A potentially business- or life-changing idea. But then, by the time you get the chance to write it down, you’ve forgotten it. Even though it’s ...

Exactly why do people remember what they remember? A recently published review paper sheds light on this fundamental question and the relationship between factors that influence human memory. Exactly ...

Your implicit memory helps you remember how to do things without consciously thinking about it. It includes skills and habits, like how to ride a bike and how to get around your house. It also ...

Are these incredible feats possible because of some rare brain difference in those that accomplish them? Nope, explains a fascinating recent Big Think article. Memory athletes aren’t genetically ...

The idea of a "photographic memory" has been intriguing to us non-robots since photography was invented, probably. But does it really exist? And if your memory is, shall we say, not so photographic, ...