Letting an AI assistant handle the hard parts of thinking feels efficient in the moment, but a growing body of cognitive ...

Add Silicon Canals to your Google News feed. Most people think a good memory means remembering what happened at breakfast, where they left their keys, or the name of someone they met at a party last ...

Six-time USA Memory champion Nelson Dellis has memorized hundreds of digits of pi. He has tips for how to improve your memory.

The visceral substrate of selfhood is not an add-on to cognitive self-awareness; in many frameworks, it is its foundation. Neuroimaging shows the anterior insula co-activating with the medial ...

A new study shows that 20 minutes of cardio can trigger memory-linked brain waves in the hippocampus, offering the first direct evidence of this effect in humans.

Memory is not a recording device. It doesn't play back events like a video camera would. Instead, it's a remarkably active, ...

A study in mice concluded that memory problems associated with age may be driven by our gut microbiome and that the vagus nerve may be key to reversing it.

The soaring cost and limited supply of computer memory is slowing some projects — and spurring creative approaches.

To recover from abuse or another traumatic experience, some people turn to a therapy called eye-movement desensitisation and reprocessing, or EMDR. But this may present problems if these people pursue ...

PCWorld breaks down optimal SSD storage capacities for different users, from basic 256GB drives to 1TB+ for gamers and content creators. Proper SSD sizing matters because insufficient storage causes ...