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Students who test themselves on new material remember about 50% more than students who just re-read their notes. That's the core finding from decades of retrieval practice research - and it runs ...

Half-forgotten memories can be resurrected using "mental time travel," a new study suggests. The research, published Monday (July 28) in the journal PNAS, showed that a person can rejuvenate their ...

In pandemic times, it’s hard enough to remember what day it is, let alone the deluge of passwords, numbers, and tasks that need to be recalled each day. Fortunately, new research suggests the ...

Last time we talked about how the original PC has a limit of 640 kB for your programs and 1 MB in total. But of course those restrictions chafed. People demanded more memory, and there were ...

A new study suggests that recalling the context in which a memory was made can help to restore the memory after it has started to erode. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...