Every Monday for more than 30 years, Mychal Wilmes starts to think about what will become his next column. “Then it kind of mulls around in my head,” Wilmes said recently over coffee at a cafe in ...

Memory refers to a process by which your brain takes in information, stores that information, and retrieves it later. You have three kinds of memory: Implicit memory is a type of long-term memory ...

“The Book of Memory” by Zimbabwean author Petina Gappah is a fiercely vivid novel that in some places — particularly, unfortunately, its opening pages — takes itself too seriously. Some paragraphs ...

Forget keyboards, scientists reveal handwriting is a powerful brain booster. This simple act engages more neural pathways ...

Episodic memory is a person’s unique memory of a specific event, so it will be different from someone else’s recollection of the same experience. Episodic memory is sometimes confused with ...