When you get lost in a book, you often enter a trance-like state similar to meditation and that state is deeply protective.” ...

There are countless metaphors for memory. It’s a leaky bucket, a steel trap, a file cabinet, words written in sand. But one of the most evocative — and neuroscientifically descriptive — invokes Lego ...

How do cell phones affect our memories? What percentage of them are imagined? A group of neuroscientists is trying to unravel ...

Memories get classified in ways that seem at first blush straightforward. They can be short-term or long-term, semantic or episodic. Semantic memories consist of remembered facts not personally ...

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After shuffling the cards in a standard 52-card deck, Alex Mullen, a three-time world memory champion, can memorize their order in under 20 seconds. As he flips though the cards, he takes a mental ...

When we crack open a book, we’re partaking in a small miracle, joining in a tradition, millennia in the making, of preserving ...