"I did revise… it just didn't go in." Sound familiar? What about "I turned over the exam paper and my mind just went blank…" It's worrying to feel like everything you're doing to prepare for an exam ...

Seen in a certain light, much of today’s education discourse is about memory. Our heated civics debates are arguments over how we want students to remember America’s founding and key events in our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Professor and neuroscientist Steve Ramirez, shown working with brain samples, is exploring the science of memory manipulation.

But there are ways to create the right conditions to make your studying as efficient as possible. My research into the science of memory shows that both novelty—new experiences—and familiarity can ...

Think about the last time you studied for an exam. You probably read your notes, went through textbooks, maybe even watched a few videos. Yet, when the paper was placed before you, your mind went ...

Memory is the process by which information and data is encoded, stored and retrieved. "What did I eat for breakfast this morning?" "Where did I leave my car keys?" "Who is buried in Grant’s Tomb?" ...

If you’ve followed this blog from its beginnings in 2009, you’ll know that it’s covered a wide territory. From initial interests in developmental psychology (I started it when I was coming out of a ...