Charan Ranganath is a professor of neuroscience and psychology and director of the memory and plasticity program at the University of California, Davis. He has been studying the neuroscience of memory ...

Four-time Jeopardy! Contestant Monica Thieu shares eight simple psychological tricks that quickly boost memory and recall.

This is a column about a helpful trick that will radically improve your memory with minimal effort so you can learn faster. But before I get to the science behind the technique and how it can help ...

Whenever the evening quiz shows used to come on, you’d always beat your spouse to the “buzzer.” (You did a fair amount of gloating about it too.) But in recent years, you’ve been having a harder time ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Research shows that crossword puzzles are effective in improving memory. (Getty Images) (artisteer via Getty Images) There is no ...

Here are 10 simple ways to improve your memory that also shed light on its workings: 1. Get plenty of sleep. If you read a book when very tired, you will forget most of what you’ve read. Sleep ...

In response to the growing popularity of writing in his day, Plato expressed concern that this newfangled form of information technology would be detrimental to the memory of those people who used it.