I was 1 year old on September 11, 2001. I was 11 when former President Barack Obama announced that Navy SEALs had killed Osama bin-Laden. And I was 25 when I spent a week at Guantánamo Bay attending ...

Every time you master a new recipe, remember a phone number, or finally figure out how to fold a fitted sheet, your brain is learning. But new research shows that the brain learns in a more complex ...

Memory is a curious thing. When someone asks me to tell a good fish story, I can only recount a few of my most stellar catches. Strange, because I have fished thousands of days over many years. Many ...

Any speaker who has received feedback of any kind from an audience has likely been humbled by how little that audience remembers. Studies of retention (of what we’ve heard) over the years range from ...

When Lavania Oluban looks at photos from her childhood, the memories feel incomplete. “It’s hazy around the edges—I’m filling in missing pieces of the puzzle with a memory that’s not quite real,” she ...

I vividly remember a conversation with my very liberal grandmother 22 years ago when after she saw the 2003 movie "Elf," with Will Ferrell, she said, “That movie was so funny, it made me forget about ...