Why habits fail: Common methods like re-reading and highlighting create an illusion of competence, leading to poor long-term retention and exam performance. What science says: Research supports active ...

As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people’s powers of recollection, I’m often asked how memory works – and what we can do to use it more effectively. Happily, ...

Researchers from Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience have discovered a new pathway to forming long-term memories in the brain. Their work suggests that long-term memory can form ...