Practicing mindfulness meditation for just a week can improve a person’s ability to remember to do things at a specific time ...

Have you ever forgotten a lunch date and stood up a good friend? This can be embarrassing and disconcerting, a potential sign that your memory just isn’t what it used to be. But, according to a new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Doing crossword puzzles or math games such as sudoku keeps your brain stimulated. (Getty Images) (Getty Images) Don’t forget!

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We tend to think of people’s memories as being either good or bad. However, you might know someone with a terrible memory for names and faces who is very good at learning languages. Another person ...

In the 1920s, a Russian journalist named Solomon Shereshevsky became famous for his extraordinary memory. He could memorize and repeat up to 70 unrelated words, provided they were read about three ...