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

Emerging 2026 study finds cannabis impacts multiple memory types. THC can increase false and source memories, suggesting it reshapes recall by interfering with encoding, consolidation, and retrieval.

Lots of us have experienced things in our lives that we’d like to forget. Our next guest is working to make that happen — ...

Every time you replay a favorite story from your past, you are not just pressing “play” on a mental recording, you are quietly editing it. The science of memory now suggests that each recall can ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Understanding how the brain recalls (and doesn’t) recall memories could lead to better treatments for memory disorders.

A new study could offer some hope for reinstating and rejuvenating old memories. The idea builds off a theory based around "mental time travel," which suggests mentally traveling back to the time of a ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: To test this hypothesis, the authors selected 1,216 participants (split into four groups) to undergo two memory experiments. The first experiment ...

Sleep is essential to memory function. Insufficient sleep makes concentrating, absorbing information, and storing and recalling memories difficult. Adults need about seven to nine hours of sleep per ...

When we think about memory, we often focus on situations in which we encounter some information and then recall it later. In many situations, though, after we encounter the information, we talk about ...