How does memory work? And how does… un-memory work? How does memory work? And how does… un-memory work? Our brain does a lot of remembering and forgetting every day, so you should probably make room ...

With effort, it’s possible to forget certain memories. Start by identifying what triggers them. By Malia Wollan “We are what we remember of ourselves,” says Michael Anderson, a professor of cognitive ...

Earlier this year, 20-year-old Vishvaa Rajakumar memorized 80 random numbers in 13.5 seconds—roughly six numbers per second. This feat helped him win the Memory League World Championship, a tournament ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. That’s a tall order and a big question that we all face from ...

Memory’s ungovernable, a ceaseless shaming pain: you’re either scrambling to retrieve it (rooting around for keys, or the name of some acquaintance) or you’re scrambling away from it, wishing it ...

UCLA-led research has found that students in a college mathematics course experienced a phenomenon similar to repression, the psychological process in which people forget emotional or traumatic events ...

"It's on the tip of my tongue." We all say it when that word or a name doesn't immediately come to mind. The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon is a common example of "blocking," which is the temporary ...