We've all been in a similar situation—you lock your front door for the umpteenth time in a given week only to panic minutes later when you're driving to work as you struggle to remember if you ...

Neurologist Andrew Budson and neuroscientist Elizabeth Kensinger not only explain how memory works, but also share science-based tips on how to keep it sharp as we age in their new book, "Why We ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Scientists are a step closer to understanding why we remember some ...

Where did you park your car today? Source: Photo by Ruffa Jane Reyes on Unsplash First, the bad news: Most of us do not remember everything. But there’s a silver lining: Forgetting is a feature, not a ...

“Why drag about this corpse of your memory,” Emerson offered in “Self-Reliance.” It was an invitation to let go of past beliefs and things once said aloud — indeed, former versions of ourselves — for ...

THERE are a lot of books about memory, so do we really need another? Why do we remember – surely we already know? Well, perhaps not as much as we thought. Whether you are into biology or not, if you ...

Sometimes we remember things that we did not even know we had memorised and sometimes the opposite happens – we want to remember something that we know we’ve learned but are not able to recall it.

Tristan Yates has no doubt about her first memory, even if it is a little fuzzy. "I was about three and a half in Callaway Gardens in Georgia," she recalls, "just running around with my twin sister ...

Where did you park your car today? Source: Photo by Ruffa Jane Reyes on Unsplash First, the bad news: Most of us do not remember everything. But there’s a silver lining: Forgetting is a feature, not a ...