Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Doing crossword puzzles or math games such as sudoku keeps your brain stimulated. (Getty Images) (Getty Images) Don’t forget!

Charan Ranganath is a professor of neuroscience and psychology and director of the memory and plasticity program at the University of California, Davis. He has been studying the neuroscience of memory ...

Four-time Jeopardy! Contestant Monica Thieu shares eight simple psychological tricks that quickly boost memory and recall.

This is a column about a helpful trick that will radically improve your memory with minimal effort so you can learn faster. But before I get to the science behind the technique and how it can help ...

Here are 10 simple ways to improve your memory that also shed light on its workings: 1. Get plenty of sleep. If you read a book when very tired, you will forget most of what you’ve read. Sleep ...

In the 1920s, a Russian journalist named Solomon Shereshevsky became famous for his extraordinary memory. He could memorize and repeat up to 70 unrelated words, provided they were read about three ...

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We tend to think of people’s memories as being either good or bad. However, you might know someone with a terrible memory for names and faces who is very good at learning languages. Another person ...

Getting older is finally getting something of a rebrand: 40 is the new 20, and 60 is the new 40; it’s cool to be authentic on social media and share unfiltered, no-makeup pictures of your face. And ...