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 ...

Scientists now know that while we snooze, our brains help solidify the memories we made during the day. In this Special Feature, we investigate whether simple techniques might help improve memory ...

Memory is a continually unfolding process. Initial details of an experience take shape in memory; the brain’s representation of that information then changes over time. With subsequent reactivations, ...

With transistors and logic gates as our basic building blocks, we can begin to construct the actual circuits that make up computer memory. One of the simplest memory circuits is the AND gate, which ...

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 ...

Hollywood loves a superpower. Not all involve capes or cosmic rays. Some are cognitive: characters who can remember ...

Building a model of the phenomenon you’re studying can help you understand how that thing works. Roadmaps are models of the highways and roads between here and there. We use them to predict how we ...