Mnemonic devices help you remember life skills that could come in handy while exploring the great outdoors. This one is ...

Semiotics is the study of nature and the role of signs in the world. It was developed by scholars such as Charles Peirce, Ferdinand de Saussure, and Yuri Lotman. Through these studies, it is ...

In prior lessons, we learned some of the key principles of memorization: Lesson 1: encoding, consolidation, retrieval, re-consolidation Lesson 2: getting motivated Lesson 3: paying attention Lesson 8: ...

That’s especially true for remembering things you want to do. Psychologists call them prospective memories: remembering to perform a planned action, or recall a planned intention, at some point in the ...

Readers emailed a cool collection of memory aids, or mnemonics, for spelling and other word topics. A frequent spelling mistake involves “capital” versus “capitol.” A capital is the city where the ...

Anyone can improve their memory using a proven scientific method the ancient Greeks and Romans developed. The idea is to create a "memory palace." A group of researchers says training daily using an ...

Memory is central to human experience, but sometimes remembering needs a little help, a mnemonic, to make thoughts, experiences and knowledge stick. Mnemonics (neh-MON-iks) include the name Roy G. Biv ...

While you might only know seed phrases as 12 or 24 words, there are a variety of ways for humans to memorize information. This is an opinion editorial by Thorbjørn König, a principal product designer ...

By tweaking the epigenetic state of a single gene, Arc, inside memory-storing neurons, researchers have altered memory ...

Drosophila have proven a valuable tool for studies of biochemical pathways related to memory and to neurodegenerative disease. That trend continues with a new paper showing that the Notch cell-surface ...

Researchers have shown for the first time that flipping an epigenetic “switch” in specific memory-holding neurons can directly alter memory strength.