When science journalist Joshua Foer attended the U.S. Memory Championship in 2005, one of the "memory athletes" claimed that, with practice, an average person could perform the same mental tricks - ...

Aug. 8 -- Tatiana Cooley knew she had a good memory, but she didn't know just how good until a few years ago. On a whim, she entered Memoriad, the annual Olympics of the Mind, where contestants cram ...

Ron White of Euless won the USA Memory Championship in New York last month and will head to the world championship in Bahrain this fall. White memorized a 167-digit number in five minutes. He recalled ...

Nelson Dellis' mind was a "Blank Space" until the six-time memory champion decided to take on Taylor Swift's entire catalog. The 41-year-old memory athlete from upstate New York is best known for ...

Mental athletes (yes, that's a real term) will compete on Saturday's USA Memory Championship in New York. We got tips from last year's champ on how to improve yours. This Saturday, an elite group of ...