A large focus of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) research is identifying early intervention strategies to decrease the risk and early onset of the disease. To test these strategies, the populations involved must benefit from the research. Many variables that are linked... View Article
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Photo by Alexis Brown on Unsplash. If you read a phone number and then do some other task afterwards, do you think you will still remember the phone number? John Sweller, a professor emeritus at the University of New South Wales,... View Article
Neuroscientist Nathan Michaels makes the analogy that brains are like machines. In this article, he states that all machines are made of a combination of structural elements that work together to produce a specific function. Machines also require inputs in... View Article
Like physical fitness, mental fitness is becoming a priority for an increasing number of individuals. Memory loss is a common fear that many of us try to curb with various mental exercises. However, it takes more than a few crossword... View Article
Researchers debate about how working memory works in dueling papers in the August 8 edition of the Journal of Neuroscience, as David Orenstein from MIT News explores this in this article. Working memory refers to the part of short-term memory... View Article
Memory is a complex concept that can be distilled into three steps: encoding, storage, and retrieval. In 2015, neuroscientists at MIT proposed a revision of this theory after finding that there are certain stored memories in the brain that cannot... View Article
There appear to be few consistent empirical demonstrations of the idea that studying materials printed on yellow paper are easier to recall than those printed on white paper, however there is evidence that warm colours (like yellow, orange and red)... View Article
According to Bauer and Larkina (2014 Memory), children do retain their earliest memories through age 7, at which point “childhood amnesia” (i.e. the forgetting of memories beyond the normal rate) sets in. In fact, this phenomenon was evident long before... View Article