In the eighties, computer processors became faster and faster, while memory access times stagnated and hindered additional performance increases. Something had to be done to speed up memory access and ...

Short-term memory, also known as active memory, allows us to temporarily store a small amount of information in our minds. Typically, it holds information for around 20 to 30 seconds. This memory type ...

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, ...