Working memory is what allows humans to juggle different pieces of information in short-term scenarios, like making a mental grocery list and then going shopping or remembering and then dialing a ...

Scientists maximize the efficiency of hafnia-based ferroelectric memory devices. A research team led by Professor Jang-Sik Lee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the ...

Think of your happiest memory. A wedding, your child’s birth, or maybe just a perfect night out with friends. Sit with it for a moment. Remember the details. What were you wearing? What did it smell ...

Long gone are the days where all our data could fit on a two-megabyte floppy disk. In today's information-based society, the increasing volume of information being handled demands that we switch to ...

The paper, "Organizing the coactivity structure of the hippocampus from robust to flexible memory," is published in Science. Memories inform our everyday actions and guide our behaviors. However, when ...

Researchers have developed a new type of memory cell that can both store information and do high-speed, high-efficiency calculations. The memory cell enables users to run high-speed computations ...

Say you need to remember something important. Information from a meeting where taking notes wasn’t possible. A pitch you’ll make to investors. A presentation you’ll make to employees. So you take ...

Charles Don Flores has been facing death for 25 years. Flores has been on death row in Texas since a murder conviction in 1999. But John Wixted, a psychologist at the University of California, San ...

Memories evolve throughout our lifetimes, changing as we learn and experience new things and as we recall a memory repeatedly. And then, memories degrade as we age. Previously, scientists thought that ...

There’s a paradox in memory science: Empirical evidence and life experience both suggest older adults have more knowledge of the world. However, in laboratory settings, they generally perform worse on ...