Playing a puzzle on your smartphone in older age could give you the short-term memory of someone in their twenties, a study suggests. Researchers analysed 181 individuals aged between 60 and 81 who ...

People may misremember events, often within seconds, and reshape memories to fit their expectations, according to a new study that sheds more light on such illusions in short-term memory. Previous ...

The study – led by University of Manchester psychologists – is the first of its kind to assess the similarities and differences in how the left and right sides of the brain process semantic memory.

Why your brain was never built to remember everything, explained by a neuroscientist ...