This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. When you need to remember a phone number, a shopping list or a set of instructions, you rely on what psychologists ...

In dueling papers, researchers tackle key questions about working memory such as, how we hold and juggle multiple pieces of information in mind. In a debate where the stakes are nothing short of ...

You hear a new colleague's name. You get directions to the airport. You glance at a phone number you're about to call. These are the times you need working memory, the brain's system for temporarily ...

Working memory is what allows humans to juggle different pieces of information in short-term scenarios, like making a mental grocery list and then going shopping or remembering and then dialing a ...

A new European cognitive neuroscience study published in this month’s Science Advances reveals that by using the “method of loci," long-term memory can be improved by anyone, not just world champions ...

So you're not a "10" in every which way. But you're probably pretty spectacular in some way, and definitely good enough in most areas of life. If ever there were a time to stop beating yourself up for ...