How good is your memory? Memory changes as you age, but it can be nerve-wracking when it feels like your memory is starting to go downhill. Take this test to find out how strong your memory is.

As the subjects completed a test of short-term memory, the researchers recorded the electrical signals associated with correct answers. Then Hampson and company ran a separate experiment in which ...

The capacity of the short-term memory can be increased through a method called ‘chunking’. This involved breaking a larger piece of information into several smaller pieces. A good example of ...