Music can lift your spirits, calm your nerves, or break your heart in a few notes. It can also nudge what you remember, but ...

State dependent memory (SDM) occurs when memory retrieval varies with the individual's psychological and physiological state at encoding and recall. Growing evidence shows that internal states shape ...

Many of us take our memory for granted. We just assume that it’ll be there when we need it. That, however, is not always the case. While some people are naturally blessed with a great memory, for most ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Google Cloud AI Research have developed a framework that enables large language model (LLM) agents to organize their experiences into a ...

This month’s executive function skill of focus is working memory. As a reminder, executive function (EF) skills are brain-based skills that help us get things done. For those of us with ADHD, we often ...

When life gets hectic, it’s easy to feel mentally foggy, forgetting why you walked into a room, losing your train of thought, or struggling to focus on simple tasks. This “brain fog” isn’t a medical ...

Summary: Researchers studying people with epilepsy have discovered that nerve cells in the medial temporal lobe coordinate their firing with slow brain waves to encode and retrieve memories. This ...

Forgetting is normal, but it can make life difficult. You might forget someone’s name seconds after you meet them, blank on where you’ve put your keys, or miss an important birthday. Memories are ...

With its ageing population, the prevalence of dementia in Hong Kong is expected to increase. Healthcare researchers from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have developed an innovative ...

Memory concerns don’t have to become inevitable realities after age 40. The brain possesses remarkable plasticity throughout life, and strategic interventions beginning in the fifth decade can ...