Pictures have many advantages. They allow us to share our memories with others, convey a thousand words, and most importantly, to rely on the camera’s memory rather than on our own. We can review our ...

Have you ever put your keys down and then completely forgotten where to find them? The brain has to work hard to protect information in your working memory from distractions. How this process works ...

When Nick Watkins was a child, he pasted articles about space exploration into scrapbooks and drew annotated diagrams of rockets. He knew this because, years later, he still had the scrapbooks, and ...

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