Researchers build fleeting memory transformers with human-like memory decay, proving memory limits help AI learn grammar ...

Giving AI a human-like memory limitation may actually help it learn language better. In their new proof-of-principle study, ...

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, ...

Put away your phone, picture this, and remember it. The entry to all new learning is like a doorway. Information crosses the threshold ushered by what captures our attention. Our capacities to see, ...

Working memory is a cornerstone of human cognitive activities, including decision-making and executive control. Understanding whether working memory-related cortical areas are shaped by genetic or ...

Have you ever put your keys down and then quickly forgotten where to find them? When you try to recall where you might have left them, you are drawing on working memory, which is the ability to ...

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, ...