"I did revise… it just didn't go in." Sound familiar? What about "I turned over the exam paper and my mind just went blank…" It's worrying to feel like everything you're doing to prepare for an exam ...

Seen in a certain light, much of today’s education discourse is about memory. Our heated civics debates are arguments over how we want students to remember America’s founding and key events in our ...

In this episode, Professor Charan Ranganath, director of the Dynamic Memory Lab at UC Davis and author of Why We Remember, reveals how memory truly works. He explains how our choices shape the ...

Think about the last time you studied for an exam. You probably read your notes, went through textbooks, maybe even watched a few videos. Yet, when the paper was placed before you, your mind went ...

But there are ways to create the right conditions to make your studying as efficient as possible. My research into the science of memory shows that both novelty—new experiences—and familiarity can ...

If you’ve followed this blog from its beginnings in 2009, you’ll know that it’s covered a wide territory. From initial interests in developmental psychology (I started it when I was coming out of a ...

Puzzle fans are hooked on Connections, the latest word game from the New York Times that launched in June 2023, following the success of Wordle. The premise of the Connections game is deceivingly ...

Memory is the process by which information and data is encoded, stored and retrieved. "What did I eat for breakfast this morning?" "Where did I leave my car keys?" "Who is buried in Grant’s Tomb?" ...