That’s especially true for remembering things you want to do. Psychologists call them prospective memories: remembering to perform a planned action, or recall a planned intention, at some point in the ...

Prospective memory enables a person to recall an intention to do something. In that sense, while it retains information from the past, prospective memory is more future-oriented than other categories ...

Think about the last time you studied for an exam. You probably read your notes, went through textbooks, maybe even watched a ...

Virginia Tech researchers have shown that memory loss in aging may be reversible. Using CRISPR tools, they corrected molecular disruptions in the hippocampus and amygdala, restoring memory in older ...

During a recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearing several days ago, Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) lambasted FBI Director Kash Patel for dodging questions and "forgetting" answers. Marjorie Taylor ...

Researchers at UVA found that damage to the brain’s protective “nets” could explain memory loss and point toward new treatments.

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 ...