Why we forget: Without reinforcement, the brain discards up to 90% of new information within a week, following the classic ‘forgetting curve’. How to retain: Spaced repetition, mnemonic devices, and ...

Memory has limits but can be improved with focus, chunking, and spaced repetition. Testing recall and reducing distractions ...

The model consists of multiple experts with lateral connections. For each new task, a new expert is initialized and trained on the current task dataset. Then the new expert is compared with previous ...

I’ve been following Susumu Tonegawa and his team’s research for years on how to erase bad memories. They’ve already managed ...

Why old habits fail: Re-reading and highlighting feel productive but don’t build lasting memory. Passive review tricks your brain into thinking you’ve learned more than you have. What really works: ...

Many sports and entertainment venues fall short not because they lack amenities, but because they feel interchangeable.

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Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute have known that practice is essential for ...

New research is making the case that just a couple of minutes of meditation can have a meaningful impact on our well-being, ...

Too often, parents and teachers try to force kids to apologize and forgive. But research suggests there’s a better way that ...

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, ...