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 ...

Semiotics is the study of nature and the role of signs in the world. It was developed by scholars such as Charles Peirce, Ferdinand de Saussure, and Yuri Lotman. Through these studies, it is ...

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.

When trying to attain behavioral goals, the ability to flexibly juggle thoughts is key. Visual working memory (VWM) provides the mental workspace to keep visual information online, allowing this ...

Think of how easy your job would be if you were able to easily memorize information that you often find yourself having to refer back to. For memory athletes, people who compete to commit long ...

Most people have trouble remembering where they put their car keys, or if they turned their oven off. And yet an astonishing few can memorize entire decks of cards and long strings of random numbers.

Using a novel approach of precision neuroimaging and high-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), neuroscientists and physicists at Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain ...

I have compiled a new collection of memory aids, or mnemonics, for spelling and other word topics. A frequent spelling mistake involves "capital" versus "capitol." A capital is the city where the main ...