A team of scientists has unveiled how the hippocampus orchestrates multiple memory processes, including encoding new information, forming memories, and retrieving them. A team of scientists from the ...

But the mind palace is a real mnemonic device, and Watson’s description is fairly accurate, says Long. More commonly known as ...

Procedural memory is a form of long-term memory that enables people to learn and execute tasks. It has been described as a kind of implicit memory: Unlike when a person recalls facts or images, ...

When compiling a C program, there is an option to compile common code segment into a shared library. <BR><BR>But I don't quite understand how shared library works.<BR>Does it exists in its own process ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Todd Sacktor was about to turn 3, his 4-year-old sister died of leukemia. “An empty bedroom next to mine. A swing set with two ...

We integrate very different periods of our life into one continuous self—from childhood into early adulthood and beyond. How ...