Letting an AI assistant handle the hard parts of thinking feels efficient in the moment, but a growing body of cognitive science research suggests that convenience comes at a measurable cost. When ...

THC doesn’t just blur memories—it can create new ones that never happened. In a controlled experiment, cannabis users were much more likely to recall words that were never shown and struggled with ...

The brain can retrieve memories that never reach conscious awareness, offering new clues about how forgetting and memory recall work.

Most previous studies have only looked at one or two types of memory, like recalling lists of words. This is the first study to comprehensively examine many different memory systems at once, and what ...

Cannabis intoxication causes false memories, source confusion, and impairs the ability to remember future tasks.

Smoking cannabis can do more than blur memories. It can reshape them. A new Washington State University study found that people who consumed THC were more likely to recall words that were never ...

Memories rarely arrive as an unbroken stream. The brain quietly divides life into segments: entering a room, starting a conversation, or watching a new scene unfold.

As people grow older, many begin to notice changes in their memory. They may forget names more easily, misplace objects, or struggle to recall recent events. While some memory changes are a normal ...

Some animals never forget—and not just in that folksy, "elephants remember everything" way. Across land, sea, and sky, ...

A bunch of people in the audience took photos of that slide. Both findings seem easy to remember, if only because the research confirms what most people feel about meetings: Most of the time, the only ...

Claude Recall gives Claude Code long-term memory across sessions. Unlike database-backed solutions, everything is stored in plain markdown files you can read, edit, and version control. A hierarchical ...

Age-related memory decline and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's are often thought of as irreversible. But the brain is not static; neurons continually adjust the strength of their ...