It is said that our species use mnemonics – that “magic of memorization” – to engrave an enormous amount of information in the brain. Yet, it is unclear how mnemonics affect memory and what the neural ...

A team of researchers from the Netherlands, Austria and Germany has found that a well-known mnemonic device used to improve short-term memory also improves longer-term memory. In their paper published ...

Sometimes the key to acing that difficult test is all a matter of memorization. Instead of cramming 100 years of American history or cellular division into your head the night before the exam, try ...

People with schizophrenia and their high-risk, first-degree relatives report widespread episodic memory impairments that are purportedly due, at least in part, to failures of mnemonic discrimination.

If loving Johnny Mnemonic is wrong, then I don’t want to be right. For three decades, the Keanu Reeves-led cyberpunk film that predated The Matrix has been generally classified as a misfire and an ...