If you’ve ever been the person who remembers everyone’s birthday, obscure facts or entire movie scripts after a single watch, you could be tapping into a cognitive superpower — and it’s more valuable ...

Most research on memory loss in the elderly focuses on dementia, Alzheimer's disease or other brain diseases. But neuroscientist Emily Rogalski from Northwestern University's Feinberg School of ...

Understanding how superior memory works may help to improve memory in the general population and in the memory-impaired, but the specific neural mechanisms behind exceptional memory performance have ...

True photographic memory as depicted in pop culture doesn’t exist. That’s because too much detail would defeat our ability to make a quick decision based on experience. However, some people have ...

Many electronic devices today are dependent on semiconductor logic circuits based on switches hard-wired to perform predefined logic functions. Physicists have developed a novel molecular memristor, ...

Research into why some people have strong memory well into old age suggests that their brains are different from their peers. Some parts of the... Inside The Brains Of People Over 80 With Exceptional ...