Vanderbilt University researchers have discovered that early visual areas, long believed to play no role in higher cognitive functions such as memory, retain information previously hidden from brain ...

The ancient Greeks used mnemonic devices to remember lengthy speeches, a testament to their effectiveness. Mnemonics are ...

Improving your working memory can profoundly impact your daily life, from improving your learning capabilities to boosting your productivity at work. Using mnemonics is a powerful strategy to improve ...

How the human brain organizes its visual memories through precise neural timing has been discovered. Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC; CA, USA) have made a significant ...

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 ...

Scientists pinpionted the role of a receptor in the plasticity underlying the degradation of vision in the common childhood condition amblyopia, but expected that receptor would play a bigger role in ...

Alex Mullen can memorize the order of a deck of cards in seconds. Give him an hour, and he’ll know the sequence of 3,000 digits by heart. Ask him to match the names of 100 strangers to their photos?