Anyone can improve their memory using a proven scientific method the ancient Greeks and Romans developed. The idea is to create a "memory palace." A group of researchers says training daily using an ...

A new European cognitive neuroscience study published in this month’s Science Advances reveals that by using the “method of loci," long-term memory can be improved by anyone, not just world champions ...

Yes, you can super-size your memory to bring it to the level of a memory champion, a new study has concluded. Brain scans revealed that memory athletes’ brains do not have a unique anatomy but instead ...

Just six weeks of training can turn average people into memory masters. Boosting these prodigious mnemonic skills came with overhauls in brain activity, resulting in brains that behaved more like ...

A time-honored mnemonic method used by memory athletes -- people adept at feats such as quickly memorizing the sequence of all the cards in a deck or a vast string of digits -- can be taught to people ...

So-called “memory athletes,” for example, participants in the annual World Memory Championships, can rapidly learn and retain large amounts of information. Top athletes can quickly memorize a list of ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American One of the tragedies of aging is the slow but ...

“Our research shows that we can help people with mild cognitive impairment improve the amount of information they learn and remember; however, different cognitive training approaches engage the brain ...