Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. You know that feeling when you walk into a room and immediately forget why ...

The ‘doorway effect’ suggests that when information is removed from working memory, it immediately seems to leave consciousness.

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, ...

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, according to researchers from the School ...

One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing.

A major breakthrough in the field of computer memory has just been achieved by Japanese researchers. They have developed a new universal memory technology, surpassing current computer modules in speed ...

The setup of the ingenious computer that works with tension and springs. Credit: St. Olaf College It has no wires, no silicon ...