Misinformation can be found everywhere these days, both online and offline. While fact-checking and corrections help, they often fall short, especially when false claims align with what people already ...

As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people’s powers of recollection, I’m often asked how memory works – and what we can do to use it more effectively. Happily, ...

Yolaine Toussaint, archivist for the Bank of Montreal, stands in front of paintings on display at the bank's museum in Old Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on Friday, May 12, 2017. In the basement of Bank of ...

A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in retrieving different types of information, the findings could redefine how memory ...

Have you ever put your keys down and then quickly forgotten where to find them? When you try to recall where you might have left them, you are drawing on working memory, which is the ability to ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called Inside the Lab, which gives audiences a first-hand look at the research laboratories at the University of Chicago and the scholars who are tackling some ...

Wanting to catch what someone said in a movie scene or listen to that rad new Def Leppard track one more time meant pressing ...

We tend to think of people’s memories as being either good or bad. However, you might know someone with a terrible memory for names and faces who is very good at learning languages. Another person ...

The world of AI has been moving at lightning speed, with transformer models turning our understanding of language processing, image recognition and scientific research on its head. Yet, for all the ...